- Title Pages
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Observers and time
- 3 Subjective images of time
- 4 Cultural images of time
- 5 Literary images of time
- 6 Objective images of time
- 7 Mathematical images of time
- 8 Illusionary images of time
- 9 Causal images of time
- 10 Physics and time
- 11 Biological time
- 12 The dimensions of time
- 13 The architecture of time
- 14 Absolute time
- 15 The reparametrization of time
- 16 Origins of relativity
- 17 Special relativity
- 18 Generalized transformations
- 19 General relativistic time
- 20 Time travel
- 21 Imaginary time
- 22 Irreversible time
- 23 Discrete time
- 24 Time and quanta
- 25 Temporal correlations
- 26 Time reversal
- 27 Quantized spacetime
- 28 Epilogue
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
Subjective images of time
Subjective images of time
- Chapter:
- (p.26) 3 Subjective images of time
- Source:
- Images of Time
- Author(s):
George Jaroszkiewicz
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter focuses on the brilliant thinkers, from Antiquity to the modern age, who have formulated the great visions of time discussed in this book. The temporal philosophy of the Ancient Greeks Anaximander, Heraclitus, Antiphon, Parmenides, Zeno of Elea, and Aristotle is reviewed, with a focus on Zeno’s paradoxes. Religious perspectives on time are then discussed, because these are portents of the scientific discussions later on in the book and continue to condition many people’s thoughts about time. A discussion of the sceptics and the Age of Reason, with an emphasis on the prescient ideas of Hume, is followed by commentary on the classical mechanical pioneers Galileo and Newton. Because of their ideas about process time, important metaphysicists such as Bergson are discussed. The chapter concludes with an appreciation of the extraordinary thoughts of mathematical physicists such as Schwinger, Caldirola, and Snyder.
Keywords: Ancient Greek philosophers, Zeno’s paradoxes, Age of Reason, Hume, Galileo, Newton, process time, mathematical physicists
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Observers and time
- 3 Subjective images of time
- 4 Cultural images of time
- 5 Literary images of time
- 6 Objective images of time
- 7 Mathematical images of time
- 8 Illusionary images of time
- 9 Causal images of time
- 10 Physics and time
- 11 Biological time
- 12 The dimensions of time
- 13 The architecture of time
- 14 Absolute time
- 15 The reparametrization of time
- 16 Origins of relativity
- 17 Special relativity
- 18 Generalized transformations
- 19 General relativistic time
- 20 Time travel
- 21 Imaginary time
- 22 Irreversible time
- 23 Discrete time
- 24 Time and quanta
- 25 Temporal correlations
- 26 Time reversal
- 27 Quantized spacetime
- 28 Epilogue
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
