Can There be a Literary Philosophy of Time?

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Currie
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Structure ◽  
The Self ◽  
Philosophy Of Time ◽  
Fictional Narratives ◽  
Nature Of Time ◽  
Metaphysics Of Time

This chapter takes the discussion of the metaphysics of time in a different direction. It asks whether the treatment of time in fictional narratives can teach anything about the nature of time, or the concepts and experience of it. In particular, it asks whether it can teach lessons that people cannot get from the usual philosophical studies of time. To pursue this question, the discussion assesses two main lines of thought that suggest the answer ‘Yes’. First, it focuses on such claims as that one can learn about time, and even about the self. Second, it considers the idea of appealing to a narrative with an unusual temporal structure, and to the ability to engage imaginatively with the narrative's time, to produce an argument that more usual structures are not necessary to time.

scholarly journals Agency and the Successive Structure of Time-Consciousness

Erkenntnis ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camden Alexander McKenna
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Structure ◽  
Basic Structure ◽  
The Self ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Epistemic Status ◽  
Mental Attitude ◽  
Time Consciousness ◽  
Possibility Space ◽  
The Right ◽  
Wrong Sort

AbstractI argue for constraining the nomological possibility space of temporal experiences and endorsing the Succession Requirement for agents. The Succession Requirement holds that the basic structure of temporal experience must be successive for agentive subjects, at least in worlds that are law-like in the same way as ours. I aim to establish the Succession Requirement by showing non-successively experiencing agents are not possible for three main reasons, namely that they (1) fail to stand in the right sort of causal relationship to the outcomes of their actions, (2) exhibit the wrong sort of epistemic status for agency, and (3) lack the requisite agentive mental attitude of intentionality. I conclude that agency is incompatible with non-successive experience and therefore we should view the successive temporal structure of experience as a necessary condition for agency. I also suggest that the Succession Requirement may actually extend beyond my main focus on agency, offering preliminary considerations in favor of seeing successive experience as a precondition for selfhood as well. The consequences of the Succession Requirement are wide-ranging, and I discuss various implications for our understanding of agency, the self, time consciousness, and theology, among other things.

On synchronizing time and eternity

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Murray Stein
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Work ◽  
The Self ◽  
Active Imagination ◽  
Nature Of Time ◽  
Piano Lesson

ABSTRACTIn this paper I attempt to show how Jung conceived of the interface of time and eternity in the self. To do this, I use his commentary of Wolfgang Pauli's ‘world clock’ vision, and to that I add my commentary on Pauli's active imagination, dedicated to M.-L. von Franz, titled ‘The Piano Lesson’. This article is a meditation on the nature of time, of eternity, and of their psychological interaction in the process of individuation. This has relevance to clinical work as well.

‘Carving the Complete Edition’: Self-commentary, Poetry, and Illustration in the Early-Qing Erotic Novel Romance of an Embroidered Screen (1670)

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mengjun Li
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
Visual Elements ◽  
Fictional Narratives ◽  
Erotic Novel ◽  
Chinese Fiction ◽  
Large Corpus

Scholars of late imperial Chinese fiction have demonstrated that Ming ‘literati novels’ possessed both intellectual sophistication and aesthetic seriousness. Nonetheless, the large corpus of mid-length fictional narratives of the Qing remains mired in problematic assumptions about its ostensibly popular nature. The self-commentaried edition ofEmbroidered screen(Xiuping yuan) presents a salient example for reassessing the nature of Qing novels and the reading of fiction in the seventeenth century. First circulated in manuscript copies, extensive auto-commentary was added when the novel was committed to print. The commented edition incorporates different genres—poetry, examination essay, and anecdotal accounts—as well as visual elements, all intended to appeal to elite literati tastes among Qing readers. Its literary, visual, and formal heteroglossia also contributed to its popularity in eighteenth-century Japan, which in turn secured its preservation and eventual modern rediscovery, even while it fell into obscurity in Qing China, most likely due to political censorship.

Scene Setting

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Philosophy Of Time ◽  
Absolute Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
Metaphysics Of Time

Absolute Time studies roughly a century of British metaphysics, starting from the 1640s. This chapter contextualizes this period of history, both philosophically and more widely. It opens with a speedy and extremely selective Cook’s tour of the history of philosophy of time leading up to seventeenth-century philosophy, emphasizing the work of Aristotle and Plotinus. It continues by describing the metaphysics of time found in a variety of early seventeenth-century British philosophers. The final part of this chapter enters into the wider history of the period, discussing non-philosophical reasons that may have played a role in increasing early modern interest in time: horology, chronology, and apocalypse studies.

Temporal Experience

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenann Ismael
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Temporal Experience ◽  
Specious Present ◽  
The Past ◽  
Its Analysis ◽  
Temporal Structures ◽  
Metaphysics Of Time

This chapter begins its analysis with a careful look at the specious present and then surveys many of the psychological temporal structures that arise in creatures like us. It also examines memory, anticipation, and the building up of our experience through time, focusing especially on the contrast between time from an “embedded” perspective and time from an external perspective. The chapter ends with some suggestions for how this work may link to one's conception of the self and also the metaphysics of time. In particular, it claims that the apparent fixity of the past emerges from the adoption of the “embedded” perspective it describes.

scholarly journals Heuristics and Eidetic in the Phenomenology of Culture

2020 ◽  
pp. 8-22
Author(s):  
Ihor Yudkin
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Structure ◽  
Initial Point ◽  
The Self ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Cyclic Structure ◽  
Historical Reality ◽  
Cultural Texts ◽  
Intuitive Thought

Eidetic abstractions based upon individuation together with heuristic programs for the examination of conjectures are the forms of intentional reflection developed within the intuitive thought. The initial point of such development is parcellation of cultural texts that is to be marked where the introduced relation “the whole – the parts” passes further to the relation “the inner – the outer” and “text – epoch” with the principle of subjective activity and the inner textual transformation in reflection that gain importance. It is textual spatial and temporal structure where eidetic and heuristic elements come into interaction most effectively; in particular, the construction of depth in a pictorial plane serves as the model for the cognition of historical reality that cannot be observed immediately. The model of labyrinth in which frames of the heuristic searches are displayed determines their procedures as the sequence of alternative choices where the continuous correction of hypotheses takes place. The premises for the development of heuristic programs are those of ambiguity and indefiniteness of eidetic images together with the self-denial of the automatism of rhetoric conventions. It is due to heuristics that the prototypes for textual eidetic images are to be found. Prototypes function as the eidetic abstractions of personal characters addressed to scenic interpretation. Textual cyclic structure builds up the necessary condition for the disclosure and mediation of distance between the text and history, from closed episodes to the epoch.

scholarly journals Japanese Philosopher Seiichi Hatano (1877–1950) on the Problems of Time

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-56
Author(s):  
Liubov B. Karelova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Western Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Of Time ◽  
The Past ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Original Contribution ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Critical Understanding ◽  
Western Intellectual

The name of Seiichi Hatano (1877–1950) is still not so widely known outside of Japan. At the same time, he belongs to those outstanding Japanese thinkers of the first half of the twentieth century, who not only introduced to their compatriots the history of Western philosophy, but also acted as generators of original concepts created on the basis of deep critical understanding of the Western intellectual heritage. The article deals with the reconstruction of Seiichi Hatano’s theory of time, formulated in his monograph “Time and Eternity” (1943), which crowned his creative career. The starting point of Hatano’s philosophy of time were studies of the basic human experience, which he interpreted in terms of the flow of life and the interaction of the Self and the Other. The subject of the Japanese thinker’s special interest was the problem of overcoming temporality. Hatano’s original contribution to the theory of time was the creation of the three-fold scheme of temporality, considered on the main levels of life – natural, cultural, and religious, conclusions about the divergence of time at the natural and cultural levels, and the idea that the past in history is governed by the perspective of the future.

scholarly journals Redundant-baseline calibration of the hydrogen epoch of reionization array

2020 ◽  
Vol 499 (4) ◽  
pp. 5840-5861 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua S Dillon ◽  
Max Lee ◽  
Zaki S Ali ◽  
Aaron R Parsons ◽  
Naomi Orosz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Temporal Structure ◽  
Neutral Hydrogen ◽  
Repeated Measurements ◽  
The Self ◽  
Hera Data ◽  
Calibration Problem ◽  
Under Construction ◽  
Self Consistency ◽  
Internal Degrees Of Freedom

ABSTRACT In 21-cm cosmology, precision calibration is key to the separation of the neutral hydrogen signal from very bright but spectrally smooth astrophysical foregrounds. The Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA), an interferometer specialized for 21-cm cosmology and now under construction in South Africa, was designed to be largely calibrated using the self-consistency of repeated measurements of the same interferometric modes. This technique, known as redundant-baseline calibration resolves most of the internal degrees of freedom in the calibration problem. It assumes, however, on antenna elements with identical primary beams placed precisely on a redundant grid. In this work, we review the detailed implementation of the algorithms enabling redundant-baseline calibration and report results with HERA data. We quantify the effects of real-world non-redundancy and how they compare to the idealized scenario in which redundant measurements differ only in their noise realizations. Finally, we study how non-redundancy can produce spurious temporal structure in our calibration solutions – both in data and in simulations – and present strategies for mitigating that structure.

“On The Sound and the Fury: Time in the Work of William Faulkner”

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Paul Sartre
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
William Faulkner ◽  
Marcel Proust ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sound And The Fury ◽  
Nature Of Time ◽  
Metaphysics Of Time

This chapter discusses the nature of time in The Sound and the Fury, noting that the first thing that strikes one in reading William Faulkner's novel is its technical oddity. It wonders why Faulkner has “broken up the time of his story and scrambled the pieces,” and suggests that his metaphysics is a metaphysics of time. At first glance, the technique Faulkner has adopted seems a negation of temporality because we confuse temporality with chronology. The unspeakable present, the sudden invasions of the past, the memories—all are reminiscent of the lost and recaptured time of Marcel Proust. Faulkner uses his extraordinary art to describe our suffocation and a world dying of old age. The essays claims that it likes Faulkner's art, but it does not believe in his metaphysics.

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