Of time and lamentation: reflections on transience
Time's mysteries seem to resist comprehension and what remains, once the familiar metaphors are stripped away, can stretch even the most profound philosopher. In Of Time and Lamentation, Raymond Tallis rises to this challenge and explores the nature and meaning of time and how best to understan...
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| Language: | English |
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Newcastle upon Tyne
Agenda Publishing
[2017]
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Edition: | First edition |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Time
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B Philosophy / Time |
| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism |
| Further subjects: | B
Time
B Time Philosophy |
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| Summary: | Time's mysteries seem to resist comprehension and what remains, once the familiar metaphors are stripped away, can stretch even the most profound philosopher. In Of Time and Lamentation, Raymond Tallis rises to this challenge and explores the nature and meaning of time and how best to understand it. The culmination of some twenty years of thinking, writing and wondering about (and within) time, it is a bold, original, and thought-provoking work. With characteristic fearlessness, Tallis seeks to reclaim time from the jaws of physics. For most of us, time is composed of mornings, afternoons, and evenings and expressed in hurry, hope, longing, waiting, enduring, planning, joyful expectation, and grief. Thinking about it is to meditate on our own mortality. Yet, physics has little or nothing to say about this time, the time as it is lived. The story told by caesium clocks, quantum theory, and Lorentz coordinates, Tallis argues, needs to be supplemented by one of moss on rocks, tears on faces, and the long narratives of our human journey. Our temporal lives deserve a richer attention than is afforded by the equations of mathematical physics.The first part of the book, "Killing Time" is a formidable critique of the spatialized and mathematized account of time arising from physical science. Part 2, "Human Time" examines tensed time, the reality of time as it is lived: what we mean by "now", how we make sense of past and future events, and the idea of eternity KILLING TIME. Introduction : seeing time. Vision : from implicit to explicit time -- Hegemony of vision in explicit time sense -- Visibly hidden -- Addendum Human and animal vision and temporal depth -- Time as "the fourth dimension". From moving shadows to the science of mechanics : the seductive idea of time as space -- Against space-like notions of time -- Is there an arrow of time? -- The myth of time travel : the idea of pure movement in time -- Further reflections on time as a dimension -- Mathematics and the book of nature -- From place to decimal place 1 : geometrization of space -- From place to decimal place 2 : geometry becomes number -- x, y, z, t : space and time stripped bare -- Space : beyond the reach of numbers -- Some consequences of mathematical literalism -- Mathematics and reality : the world as a system of magnitudes -- Addendum 1 : Some sideways glances at Henri Bergson -- Addendum : A Note On Intelligibility and Reality -- Clocking time -- The mysterious verb "to time" -- Light and dark ; daytime and night-time : shadow clocks and beyond -- The pulse and the pendulum -- What do clocks (really) do? -- Telling the time : "at" -- from clock to o'clock -- Orchestrating our lives -- Towards deep time -- Further reflections -- Epilogue Finding lost time : physics and philosophy -- HUMAN TIME -- In defence of tense -- The attack on tense : the physicists -- The attack on tense : the philosophers -- Tense regained : time and the conscious subject -- Living Time : Now -- Now -- The present -- Presence -- The past : locating the snows of yesteryear -- The presence of the past -- Out of sight into mind : getting the past into focus -- Where, then, are those snows? Memory and history -- A Last Backward Look At Memory and the Past -- Coda -- Addendum A note on memory -- Concerning tomorrow (today) -- Introducing the future : all our tomorrows -- The contested openness of the future -- Final reflections on the future -- Beyond time : temporal thoughts on eternity -- The idea of eternity -- The relationship between time and eternity -- Was the word in the beginning? -- FINDING TIME -- (What) is time? -- Defining time : preliminary reflections -- Time in itself -- The stuff of time -- Time and change -- Objective and subjective time -- Concluding comments -- Addendum : A note on the singularity -- The onlooker : causation and explicit time -- Introduction -- Time and causation -- The onlooker -- Final observation of time, change and causation -- Addendum : Mellor on memory and the causal arrow of time -- Time and human freedom -- Introduction -- Intentionality, causation and tensed time -- The human agent -- Aspects of freedom |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 697-709 |
| ISBN: | 1911116215 |