Of Time, Passion, and Knowledge: Reflections on the Strategy of ExistencePrinceton University Press, 1990 - 529 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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Contents
ASCENTBY WAY OF INTRODUCTION | 3 |
PART | 9 |
Being Becoming and Existential Tension | 43 |
Predictable Futures | 47 |
THE SEEKER | 72 |
PART | 95 |
The Living Symmetries of Physics | 137 |
How to Deal with Conflicts | 152 |
OUT OF THE DEPTHS | 283 |
Some Implications of the Deep Structure of Time | 313 |
PART FOUR | 319 |
Collective Perceptions of Science as Truth | 338 |
A Psychological Aside Pertaining to the Structure | 350 |
A Mathematical Aside Pertaining to the Structure | 356 |
ARTS LETTERS AND THE BEAUTIFUL | 398 |
XII TIME AS CONFLICT | 435 |
Estimates of Death | 169 |
LIFE | 178 |
Periodicity Primitive Life and Existential Tension | 186 |
Aging and Death | 192 |
Organic Evolution | 208 |
The Mind of the Matter | 233 |
ABBREVIATIONS FOR WORKS FREQUENTLY QUOTED | 447 |
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