Primordial Time
Its Irreducible Reality, Human Significance, and Ecological Import
Seiten
2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-2015-6 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-2015-6 (ISBN)
This book explicates and defends the reality of time against its scientific, philosophical, and theological detractors, and it discusses how a proper view of the nature of time serves as a way to comprehend the challenges of human existence and confront the current ecological crisis.
What if there is no such thing as a real passage of time? What differences would this idea make for our conception of the world and of our lives in the world? Donald A. Crosby’s Primordial Time: Its Irreducible Reality, Human Significance, and Ecological Import defends the objective, underived reality of time and its crucial existential and ecological significance by focusing on the qualitative, inner experiences of the passage of time. The time of these inner experiences has often been described as illusory, on the ground that there is no such thing as an objective passage of time. But Crosby argues that the firsthand human experience of time, far from being illusory, provides essential evidence of the reality of it—evidence complemented by close examination of scientific and philosophical indications of the objective reality of time—as against its detractors. Of equal importance is the existential meaning of firsthand experience of the passage of time—meaning apart from which the dynamics of human life collapse into absurdity. Finally, Crosby explores the central, urgent role of the reality of time in relation to the ecological crisis of our day.
What if there is no such thing as a real passage of time? What differences would this idea make for our conception of the world and of our lives in the world? Donald A. Crosby’s Primordial Time: Its Irreducible Reality, Human Significance, and Ecological Import defends the objective, underived reality of time and its crucial existential and ecological significance by focusing on the qualitative, inner experiences of the passage of time. The time of these inner experiences has often been described as illusory, on the ground that there is no such thing as an objective passage of time. But Crosby argues that the firsthand human experience of time, far from being illusory, provides essential evidence of the reality of it—evidence complemented by close examination of scientific and philosophical indications of the objective reality of time—as against its detractors. Of equal importance is the existential meaning of firsthand experience of the passage of time—meaning apart from which the dynamics of human life collapse into absurdity. Finally, Crosby explores the central, urgent role of the reality of time in relation to the ecological crisis of our day.
Donald A. Crosby is professor of philosophy emeritus at Colorado State University.
Contents
Preface
1. Two Questions about Time
2. Direction of Time
3. Scope of Time
4. Reality of Time
5. Time and Matter-Energy
6. Existential Time
7. Ecological Toll of Time
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 158 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 390 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-7936-2015-6 / 1793620156 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-7936-2015-6 / 9781793620156 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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