On McTaggart's Theory of Time
2010; University of Illinois Press; Volume: 27; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
2152-1026
Autores Tópico(s)Classical Philosophy and Thought
ResumoJ. M. E. McTaggart argues that time is not part of reality.1 Specifically, he argues that since the philosophical concep of time is cons ituted by two fundamental notions of temporality, namely, the notions of fluid and static time, and since, on his view, neither notion is philosophically viable, he concludes that time per se is nothing but an illusion that arises from our distorted perception of essentially atemporal reality.2 Nowadays, few philosophers who take up the problem of time endorse this sweeping metaphysical thesis.3 Most see fluid time as entirely il lusory. The rest are split between those who believe to the contrary and those who hold both fluid time and static time to be equally real.4
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