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Philosophical Thoughts on Time: Lao Tzu Aristotle the Stoics St. Augustine

Philosophical Thoughts on Time: Lao Tzu Aristotle the Stoics St. Augustine. Time Across Time. Lecture by Kyoo Lee. Lao Tzu (6 th Century BC). Hundun (Chaos, before time) Dao (Way, before time): Ch 1/21 Shi (Time ) as: Natural Order(ing) : Ch 29

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Philosophical Thoughts on Time: Lao Tzu Aristotle the Stoics St. Augustine

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  1. Philosophical Thoughts on Time: Lao Tzu Aristotle the Stoics St. Augustine

  2. Time Across Time Lecture by Kyoo Lee

  3. Lao Tzu (6th Century BC) Hundun (Chaos, before time) Dao (Way, before time): Ch 1/21 Shi (Time ) as: Natural Order(ing) : Ch 29 Co-orgination of Opposites: Ch 29 Timing: Ch 29

  4. Time, “now” as an instance of it, is not a period but a boundary. Time (Chronos) is, therefore, the number or measure of change. “In so far then as the “now” is a boundary, it is not time, but an attribute of it; in so far as it numbers, it is number; for boundaries being only to that which they bound, but number (e.g. ten) is the number of these horses, and belongs also elsewhere.” (Physics 220a 22-25) Time is and shows—potentializes and actualizes—the movement of the soul. Aristotle(384-322 BC)

  5. The Stoics(2nd–3rd Century) • Crysippus: • the present alone is obtainable; • the past and the future is subsistent/subsisting. • Archedemus: • the present (now) is retrenchable: • joining and connection of the past and the future.

  6. St. Augustine (354-43) • Time is subjective: human mental states or phenomena. (This is a “phenomenological” account of time.) • Time lies in between the memory of the past and expectation of the future. • “[…] (I)n the mind there is an expectation of the future. Who can deny that the past does not now exist? Yet there is still in the mind a memory of the past. None can deny that present time lacks any extension because it passes in a flash. Yet attention is continuous, and it is through this that what will be present progresses towards being absent. So the future, which does not exist, is not a long period of time. A long future is a long expectation of the future. And the past, which has no existence, is not a long period of time. A long past is a long memory of the past.” (Confessions xxviii: 37)

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