ATDTDA (5.1) - The Etienne-Louis Malus

[Dave Monroe]

--- Monte Davis <monte.davis at bms.com> wrote:

> Dave Monroe wrote:
> 
> >Morson, Gary Saul.  Narrative and Freedom:
> >   The Shadows of Time.  New Haven, CT:
> >   Yale UP, 1994...
> 
> I liked the Morson book, but NB that even he had
> to use "sideways" --  which leaves in place the
> the underlying flaw, the *spatialization* of 
> time. I don't know what to replace it with -- but I
> do know that
> 
> 1) we don't "move through" time
> 2) time doesn't "flow past" us
> 3) the past is not "another country" -- it  "isn't"
> anything beyond a set of boundary conditions
> 4) that we imagine "futures" does absolutely nothing
> for their ontological status

This is something I've no small interest in.  What
would a temporalization of time (or of space, for that
matter) look like?  Gtta run, but will be back ...


 
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