Aspirantskiy Vestnik PovolzhiyaAspirantskiy Vestnik Povolzhiya2072-23542410-3764Samara State Medical University2426810.17816/2072-2354.2016.0.3-4.96-98Research ArticleTHE COINCIDENCE OF THE OPPOSITES IN THE ARCHITECTONICS OF LINEAR AND CYCLIC TIMEMALYSHEVV Bvlmaly@yandex.ru15062016163-4969811032020Copyright © 2016, MALYSHEV V.B.2016Basic features of European metaphysics are described by metaphor of the clock. Semiotics of time, according to the teachings of Nicholas of Cusa, has obtained certain duality - it is both linear and cyclical. On the one hand, according to Christian eschatology and modern theories, time is irreversible and one-directional, it is like an arrow directed towards eternity. On the other hand, there has been an ontological substitution of natural cycles: time, once it appeared on the clock-face of mechanical rotation, has obtained machine cyclicality.φύσιςlinear timecyclical timemetaphysical clock-faceφύσιςhistorical semanticseschatologymechanistic worldviewлинейное времяциклическое времяметафизический циферблатисторическая семантикаэсхатологиямеханистическое мировоззрение[Августин Аврелий. О Граде Божием. - Мн.: Харвест; М.: АСТ, 2000. - 1296 с.][Кузанский Н. Соч. в 2-х тт. Т. 1. - М.: Мысль, 1979. - 488 с.][Ле Гофф Ж. Другое Средневековье: Время, труд и культура Запада. - 2-е изд., испр. - Екатеринбург: Изд-во Урал. ун-та, 2002. - 328 с.][Малышев В.Б. Метафизический циферблат как базовая метафора европейской культуры // European Social Science Journal. - М.: АНО МИИ; Рига: Mazleksnes, 2012. - № 3(19). - С. 29-35.][Мифы народов мира: энциклопедия, в 2-х тт. / Гл. ред. С.А. Токарев. - 2-е изд. - М.: Советская энцикл., 1988. - Т. 2: К-Я. - 719 с.][Юнгер Ф.Г. Совершенство техники. - СПб.: Владимир Даль, 2002. - 559 с.]