122 Pages
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Routledge
122 Pages
by
Routledge
122 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title was first published in 2000: Beginning with a sustained argument against the new tenseless theory of time and against McTaggart's A series/B series distinction, the author of this essay goes on to provide a non-paradoxical, tensed, phenomenologically-based account of the 'going on' or 'taking place' of events in time that escapes the paradoxes endemic to 'passage' as understood... Read more
Contents: McTaggart's Parody of time and the tenseless theory: Introduction; McTaggart's Language of time and its inconsistencies; Tenseless theory and the future; Tenseless theory and persisting things; Tenseless theory, temporal parts and 'Back to Quine'; The dynamic of time; Introduction; Experience and the present: a first look; The present and the just-past; The micro-structure of 'going on'; The time that flows, the time that abides; Unsaturatedness, significance, and the possibility of narrative; Concluding remarks; Redrawing the self: The self: an old agenda in outline; Aporetics of the Noumenal self; Kant and Sartre; The self and its 'objects'; Will and the Sartrean self; Reinstating character: a preliminary outline; The tripartite psyche in Plato's Republic; The self and its 'Logical Geography'; The time of the embodied self; Introduction;'Ground Projects' and their temporality; Sartre and ecstatic temporality; Ecstatic temporality and the intra-temporal 'I'; Concluding remarks; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Andros Loizou
'... contains ideas of considerable interest and importance, which have been unjustly neglected by philosophers writing on time.' The Philosopher
