Paperback. Preface I. Introduction: The Nature and Vindication Prevalent Repudiation of Metaphysics What is Metaphysics? The Restoration of Metaphysics II. Metaphysical Problems of Time Passage, Movement, and Measurement How Do We Identify the Present? Change, Permanence, and the Transcendence of Passage Spinoza Provides a Clue III. Physical Time Attempts to Eliminate Passage from Physical Time Process, Order, and Chaos The Paradoxes of Zeno Cosmic Time Time Reversal Cosmic History and Cosmic Unity IV. Biological Time Organism and Duree The Emergence of Life Evolution Environment and Biological Clocks Behavior Biocoenoses Conclusion V. Psychological Time The Stream of Consciousness The Specious Present Time and the Transcendental Subject The Problem of the Transcendental Ego Soultion to the Problem VI. Historical Time Res Gestae The Idea of the Historical Past The Historical Process Structuralism and Deconstructionism VII. Dialectic in History Historical Thinking Transformation of Conceptual Schemes The Dialectical Scale Historical Objectivity The Historical Universal VIII. Evolution and Omega Evolution, Diachronic, and Synchronic The Features of Wholeness Differentiation and Process The Clue to "Omega" Omega and Time Omega and Deity "Mysticism" Notes Select Bibliography Index Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title: The Reality of Time (Paperback)
Publisher: State University of New York Press, Albany, NY
Publication Date: 1988
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0887068618
ISBN 13: 9780887068614
Binding: Paperback
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Errol E. Harris is John Evans Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University.

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