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Harwood emphasises the inevitability of time’s continuity, “the think I could not grasp or name”, through

time,” is a statement which this book The Daughter of Time demonstrated very well. It showed how

The idea that “we have all the time we have always had” is explored continually throughout the theatre performance, however this concept is more explicitly insinuated when viewing the physical and verbal actions of Marianne who frequently enforces her beliefs towards the concept of time, stating beautifully that “In the quantum multiverse, every choice, every decision you’ve ever made and never made exists in an unimaginably vast ensemble of parallel universes”. Throughout the duration of ‘Constellations’, an array of character interactions take place simultaneously, in a diverse magnitude of ‘universes’. Although each ‘universe’ maintains certain connections and similarities, each fragment reveals an altered relationship dynamic between characters Roland and Marianne, alluding towards the notion that these characters are concurrently experiencing, in each segment of time, one of the infinite forms of relationships people can experience. This presents the perception that no matter the length of the time each character believed they possessed, it was due to the simultaneous nature of their relationships in each parallel universe, that Roland and Marianne were able to experience each infinite possibility concurrently and therefore, would require no more or less time to fulfill these possibilities. These relationships,

Have you ever felt like time was running past you? That the world kept spinning while you just stood still? Time is a central theme in many of Kenneth Slessor’s poems, however it is primarily explored through ‘Out of time’ and ‘Five Bells’. Slessor has made it obvious that he is aware that time continues whether we want it to or not and this is what allows us to put into perspective the notion of humanity’s dominance.

Time and the Conways (1937) and A Dream Play (1901) play with the idea of time as nonlinear. Influenced by John William Dunne, Priestley begins to investigate his own conception of time as the past, present, and future all happening at once. Strindberg, although he wrote A Dream Play ahead of Dunne and Priestley, also expounds on similar ideas linking time and dreams. Dreams can free us from viewing time’s structure as fixed and linear. Therefore, both playwrights begin to make theatre audiences aware of new ideas about how to perceive time and the use of dreams/precognitive states. Utilizing Dunne’s basic theory of non-linear time, I will talk about how we can apply this to readings of Time and the Conways and A Dream Play to explore themes of dreams and perception of time.

Employing contradictory imagery and ideas, Heller delves into the contorted facets of Dunbar’s character, defining him through his comparisons of contradictory and seemingly ludicrous ideas. To love something because one hates every minute of it is certainly peculiar, but by illuminating the thought behind Dunbar’s oxymoronic feelings toward skeet-shooting, Heller is able to reveal the intricate logic lying just beneath the seeming insanity of his thoughts. The passage of time has long flummoxed even the greatest of philosophers: hours drag on, but years disappear in the blink of an eye. Even so, Dunbar looks to have unveiled the mysterious inner workings of time, condensing it into a precise science with which he precisely regulates the speed

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J.M.E McTaggart’s ‘The Unreality of Time’ is respected today as his foremost and best known work within Academia. It is appropriate that this work shares the title of one of his most enduring Philosophical projects, establishing that Time is unreal or does not exist. In regards to the question ‘Did He Succeed?’ while being a perfectly typical critical Philosophical essay topic, it would be beyond the scope of this essay to definitively say Yes or No. The standards of Western Philosophy just seem to be that for any of those enduring questions that have been the topic of study for in some cases nearly three thousand years in the discipline to be said to be definitively answered, the standard and breadth of evidence would be so great that no one would be asking if a Philosopher really did succeed in his project nearly a century after his death. So in this essay I will discuss how McTaggart attempted to establish the unreality of time, but in the context of not trying to argue he actually established it beyond doubt. McTaggart sought to establish the unreality of time by means of demonstrating how flawed conventional conceptions within Philosophy of Time were. So I will also seek to demonstrate he did at least establish that current conceptions of time were flawed and throw serious doubt upon then.

It could argued that our common-sense notion of endurance through time is incorrect. That this mistaken self-conception lead us to experience the passage of time. If so, this would be illusory no? And if this enduring ‘me’ is an illusion then so is the passage of time.

In Metaphysics XII, Aristotle elaborates on a need for a “first mover that initiates motion without being moved” (Met. 12.7, 1072a26). This primary, or unmoved mover, he believes is the source of all motion in the universe. In this essay, I will explain his conception of such a mover. I will then elaborate on how this unmoved mover initiates motion. Finally, I will explain his rationale for believing there is such a mover.

Time travel has been debated for years by philosophers and non-philosophers alike. While the possibility of time travel is intriguing and alluring, I do not believe its portrayal in today’s media is plausible. In this paper, I will argue that time travel, particularly back in time, is not possible in our current world and universe.

In this paper I will be discussing the concept of the paradox, examples from Zeno and McTaggart, and how modern science has potential solved the paradox put forth by McTaggart. Both of these paradoxes have a enormous repercussion on how objective fact about the world can be understood. I claim that McTaggart’s theory of time can be solved by modern physics as Einstein’s theory of relativity makes time a relative factor in how time is understood.

The notion of time is used as the basis for the argument in 'To his

It moves “backwards” rather than “forward”, and people set their minds on what has taken place, not the future. No time, in turn, is defined as what has not taken place or what has no likelihood of an immediate occurrence.

It is paradoxical to have a course, which revolves round the corrosiveness of faulted Western notions of time and its depiction through abstraction, identify itself with an abstract title but argue for the concreteness and tangibility of the portrayal of time and space. A Place Beyond Time does just that. Containing a vastly abstract title, A Place Beyond Time may at first glance appear to properly relate time as a tangent notion with space. Upon further contemplation, however, it becomes patent that A Place Beyond Time possesses a conspicuous absence present in its philosophy of aloofness from intangibility. And although the name of the course attempts to tackle and manifest the complications of abstract and concrete time, it is through its lack of definition and precision, lack of possession, and lack of sensation of repetition that A Place Beyond Time fails to properly capitalize on this dilemma.