Time and Its Cultural and Metaphysical Duration
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Authors
Bomberowitz, Ian
Issue Date
2003
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Thesis
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en_US
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Abstract
The polemic surrounding the nature of time causes worry amongst philosophers,
physicists, and religionists. Time plays an integral yet curious role within metaphysical
analysis. The drive that people have to study time stems from its quotidian nature. One
expects the physicality of time to be well understood. As it turns out, however, time has
many quizzical properties, and to analyze these properties satisfactorily is all but
impossible at present. My paper is concerned with outlining some of the historically
significant problems philosophers have addressed concerning time and its classification
within a physical framework. To get a well-rounded notion of the problems surrounding
time, I explored a multitude of philosophical and religious traditions. I moved through
Jain theories of time, Augustinian theories of time, and onto the contemporary theories
put forth by McTaggart and Huw Price. As I moved through these traditions, I uncovered
a number of distinct difficulties that confound some of the traditional solutions to these
problems.
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