M & D Time pp194--195

[Jerome Park]

http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/grammar-of-happiness-the/0/141519

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. ~Henry David
> Thoreau, "Economy," Walden, 1854
>
> p.194
> "purely,as who might say, dangerously, was Time that must be denied
> its freedom to elapse"...
>
> There is a real-life philosopher who appears in Against the Day, one
> McTaggart, famously known for the fullest
> arguments made that Time does not exist.....check out one of the
> arguments....they hinge on
> the question of how Time's passing can be measured since, being time,
> it cannot be measured
> by Time....
> As above, "Time denied its freedom to elapse."
>
> p. 195 "People who liv'd in quite another relation to Time.....The
> Verbs of their language no more possessing tenses, than their nouns
> Case-Endings".....
>
> In his major book, Marshall McLuhan alludes to (from anthropologists'
> studies) and talks of pre-industrial communities that live in such a
> situation..in eternity, so to speak....
> -
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