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Overview

Preface

I. Introduction: The Nature and Vindication

Prevalent Repudiation of Metaphysics
What is Metaphysics?
The Restoration of Metaphysics

II. Metaphysical Problems of Time

Passage, Movement, and Measurement
How Do We Identify the Present?
Change, Permanence, and the Transcendence of Passage
Spinoza Provides a Clue

III. Physical Time

Attempts to Eliminate Passage from Physical Time
Process, Order, and Chaos
The Paradoxes of Zeno
Cosmic Time
Time Reversal
Cosmic History and Cosmic Unity

IV. Biological Time

Organism and Duree
The Emergence of Life
Evolution
Environment and Biological Clocks
Behavior
Biocoenoses
Conclusion

V. Psychological Time

The Stream of Consciousness
The Specious Present
Time and the Transcendental Subject
The Problem of the Transcendental Ego
Soultion to the Problem

VI. Historical Time

Res Gestae
The Idea of the Historical Past
The Historical Process
Structuralism and Deconstructionism

VII. Dialectic in History

Historical Thinking
Transformation of Conceptual Schemes
The Dialectical Scale
Historical Objectivity
The Historical Universal

VIII. Evolution and Omega

Evolution, Diachronic, and Synchronic
The Features of Wholeness
Differentiation and Process
The Clue to "Omega"
Omega and Time
Omega and Deity
"Mysticism"

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

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Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780887068614
  • ISBN-10: 0887068618
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publish Date: December 1988
  • Dimensions: 9.14 x 6.12 x 0.59 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.75 pounds
  • Page Count: 204

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