Of Time, Passion, and KnowledgePrinceton University Press, 09.03.2021 - 552 Seiten "Only a wayfarer born under unruly stars would attempt to put into practice in our epoch of proliferating knowledge the Heraclitean dictum that `men who love wisdom must be inquirers into very many things indeed.'" Thus begins this remarkable interdisciplinary study of time by a master of the subject. And while developing a theory of "time as conflict," J. T. Fraser does offer "many things indeed"--an enormous range of ideas about matter, life, death, evolution, and value. |
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... hence , movement and plurality are virtual . It would presumably also follow that reality is timeless . To gain this end , Zeno manipulated concepts and mental images of certain opposites , such as motion versus rest , the finite versus ...
... hence , movement and plurality are virtual . It would presumably also follow that reality is timeless . To gain this end , Zeno manipulated concepts and mental images of certain opposites , such as motion versus rest , the finite versus ...
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... Hence , God did the next best thing . “ He resolved to have a moving image of eternity , and when he set in order the heaven , he made this image eternal but moving according to number , while eternity itself rests in unity ; and this ...
... Hence , God did the next best thing . “ He resolved to have a moving image of eternity , and when he set in order the heaven , he made this image eternal but moving according to number , while eternity itself rests in unity ; and this ...
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... hence timelessness , of knowledge . Consistently then , he believed to have found the ultimate essence of the world in a corpus of unchanging laws or forms underlying all things . Such a substratum was then regarded as knowable and real ...
... hence timelessness , of knowledge . Consistently then , he believed to have found the ultimate essence of the world in a corpus of unchanging laws or forms underlying all things . Such a substratum was then regarded as knowable and real ...
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... hence , a rhythm , but not a direction.30 Finally , that all things are measured by the regular circular movement of the heavens explains , he wrote , what in his epoch was regarded a common saying , " human affairs form a circle . ” 31 ...
... hence , a rhythm , but not a direction.30 Finally , that all things are measured by the regular circular movement of the heavens explains , he wrote , what in his epoch was regarded a common saying , " human affairs form a circle . ” 31 ...
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... hence it may be considered infinitely divisible , whereas real time is atomistic . The end of the Middle Ages and the revival of letters may be conveniently , if somewhat arbitrarily , associated with the mystically minded Neoplatonic ...
... hence it may be considered infinitely divisible , whereas real time is atomistic . The end of the Middle Ages and the revival of letters may be conveniently , if somewhat arbitrarily , associated with the mystically minded Neoplatonic ...
Inhalt
3 | |
9 | |
39 | |
Predictable Futures | 47 |
Events and Processes | 69 |
Three Modules of the Shortterm Present | 76 |
PART | 95 |
The Living Symmetries of Physics | 137 |
The Mind as Strategy | 257 |
OUT OF THE DEPTHS | 283 |
Some Implications of the Deep Structure of Time | 313 |
PART FOUR | 319 |
RELIGION POLITICS AND THE GOOD | 361 |
The Good Emergence and War | 387 |
ARTS LETTERS AND THE BEAUTIFUL | 398 |
The Freedom of the Beautiful | 432 |
How to Deal with Conflicts | 152 |
Estimates of Death | 169 |
LIFE | 178 |
The Mind of the Matter | 233 |
ABBREVIATIONS FOR WORKS FREQUENTLY QUOTED | 447 |
AUTHOR INDEX | 509 |
SUBJECT INDEX | 517 |
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Of Time, Passion, and Knowledge: Reflections on the Strategy of Existence Julius Thomas Fraser Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1990 |
Of Time, Passion, and Knowledge: Reflections on the Strategy of Existence Julius Thomas Fraser Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1990 |
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