Past, Present, and Future: A Philosophical Essay about TimeContributing specialists survey Hispanic literature of New Mexico and its influence. No index. The prevailing view in the history of philosophy has been that time is not basically real but has a derivative status. In contrast, Lieb (philosophy, U. of Southern California) establishes the thesis that time is a fundamental reality: it is individuals." |
Contents
One Introduction | 1 |
Two The Contemporary World 15 | 15 |
Must There Be Many Individuals in the Present? | 28 |
Three The Becoming of the Present 39 | 39 |
The Interaction of Time and Individuals | 45 |
Four The Dimensions of the Present 54 | 54 |
The Breadth of the Present | 63 |
The Depth of Individuals | 72 |
Historical Explanation | 140 |
Eight How the Past Affects the Present | 149 |
The Past and the Forming of Individuals | 155 |
The Effects of the Past | 161 |
Nine The Reality of the Future | 169 |
Future Time and the Future Being of Individuals | 182 |
Ten The Nature of the Future | 188 |
The Inexhaustibility of the Future | 209 |
Dimensions and the Present | 81 |
Five The Reality of the Past | 89 |
Revised Notions of Action and Change | 96 |
Six Becoming and Being Past | 109 |
The Nature of the Past | 115 |
Seven History and the Past | 129 |
Regularity and | 220 |
Laws of Nature | 231 |
Time and Value | 245 |
Acknowledgments | 257 |
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