Of Time, Passion, and KnowledgePrinceton University Press, 2021 M03 9 - 552 pages "Only a wayfarer born under unruly stars would attempt to put into practice in our epoch of proliferating knowledge the Heraclitean dictum that `men who love wisdom must be inquirers into very many things indeed.'" Thus begins this remarkable interdisciplinary study of time by a master of the subject. And while developing a theory of "time as conflict," J. T. Fraser does offer "many things indeed"--an enormous range of ideas about matter, life, death, evolution, and value. |
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... principle of Eros is a perpetually dissatisfied , restless force that searches for the timeless and the eternal . In the visual metaphor of the engraving , I would like to think of Eros as representing the conflicts of the human mind ...
... principle of Eros is a perpetually dissatisfied , restless force that searches for the timeless and the eternal . In the visual metaphor of the engraving , I would like to think of Eros as representing the conflicts of the human mind ...
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... principle exemplified by the unity of God who is “ day - night , winter - summer , war - peace . ” 12 In his view the world comprises continuous change : the opposites oscillate between their polar states and the pluralistic whole moves ...
... principle exemplified by the unity of God who is “ day - night , winter - summer , war - peace . ” 12 In his view the world comprises continuous change : the opposites oscillate between their polar states and the pluralistic whole moves ...
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... principle . In Physics he wrote that “ in time all things come into being and pass away ; for that reason some ... principles which can accommodate the regular as well as the unique and progressive events 20 THE GLASS WALL.
... principle . In Physics he wrote that “ in time all things come into being and pass away ; for that reason some ... principles which can accommodate the regular as well as the unique and progressive events 20 THE GLASS WALL.
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... principle of nature set to realize and govern itself “ and it chose to aim at something more than its present : it stirred from its rest and the Cosmos stirred with it . . . . And we ( the active principle and the Cosmos ) , stirring to ...
... principle of nature set to realize and govern itself “ and it chose to aim at something more than its present : it stirred from its rest and the Cosmos stirred with it . . . . And we ( the active principle and the Cosmos ) , stirring to ...
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... principle of self - realization coexists with the living organic whole of the material universe . He attempted to express this through the synthesis of the lawful and the unexpected in the nature of time . His poetic grasp of the Cosmos ...
... principle of self - realization coexists with the living organic whole of the material universe . He attempted to express this through the synthesis of the lawful and the unexpected in the nature of time . His poetic grasp of the Cosmos ...
Contents
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Predictable Futures | 47 |
Events and Processes | 69 |
Three Modules of the Shortterm Present | 76 |
PART | 95 |
The Living Symmetries of Physics | 137 |
The Mind as Strategy | 257 |
OUT OF THE DEPTHS | 283 |
Some Implications of the Deep Structure of Time | 313 |
PART FOUR | 319 |
RELIGION POLITICS AND THE GOOD | 361 |
The Good Emergence and War | 387 |
ARTS LETTERS AND THE BEAUTIFUL | 398 |
The Freedom of the Beautiful | 432 |
How to Deal with Conflicts | 152 |
Estimates of Death | 169 |
LIFE | 178 |
The Mind of the Matter | 233 |
ABBREVIATIONS FOR WORKS FREQUENTLY QUOTED | 447 |
AUTHOR INDEX | 509 |
SUBJECT INDEX | 517 |
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