Time and eternity:
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Ithaca u.a.
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1991
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| adam_text | Contents
Preface
i Introduction
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2 Some Working Assumptions
6
Reality Has a Modal Structure 6
Possibilities Come in World-Sized Clumps 7
Only Actually Existing Entities Have Attributes 9
There Are Absolute Modal Facts 10
The Logic of Absolute Modality Is S5 13
Some Modal Claims Have Sufficient Warrant to Deserve Belief 14
Time Can Be Viewed as Tensed or as Tenseless 17
The Primary Occupants of Time Are Not Things 18
We Can Speak Affirmatively and Literally of God i8
3 The Possibility of the Timeless 20
Is the 4D Universe Timeless? 21
Would a Second Time Series Be Timeless? 21
Motion and Spatially Continuous Paths 23
Continuous Paths, Single Spaces, and Single Times 24
One Space, Two Times 26
Indirect Evidence 28
God and Multiple Times 29
Timeless Space 31
The Necessity of Time: Hartshorne 34
God and the Necessity of Time 33
The Contingency of Time 36
Numbers and Mathematical Truths 40
4 The Logic of Eternity 50
Truth and Timelessness: Eternity as a Date 30
Applications 32
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Contents
An Objection 33
A Reply Rejected 37
A Second Proposal 58
A Third Proposal 60
Eternity and Tense 61
Timelessness and Alethic Modality 6j
Eternity, Simplicity, and Absolute Necessity 66
Eternity and Uniqueness 71
The Position to Date 72
5 Augustine: Eternality as Truest Existence 73
Timelessness and Being T1 76
Two Problems 80
Genuineness of Existence 81
Genuine Existence 8j
Genuine Presentness and Augustine’s Position 89
Degreed Existence and Tenseless Time 91
Unity and Existence 92
An Argument for Degreed Existence 93
How Many Degrees? 96
The Superior Reality of the Timeless 97
Existence, Unity, and Augustine’s Position 99
Greatest Unity and Its Marks 99
Dream and Reality 100
Continuity 105
Coherence 106
Explicability 106
Intersubjectivity 107
“Hardness” 108
Inclusiveness 109
Dream, Reality, and Augustine’s Position no
The Importance of the Timeless no
6 Boethius: Eternity as Duration 112
Eternity in the Consolation of Philosophy 113
Eternity in De Trinitate 119
QTE and the Stump-Kretzmann View 123
Fitzgerald’s Critique 123
The Stump-Kretzmann Response 12s
Eternity and Divine Simplicity 134
On Behalf of a Partless Extension 137
Eternity and the Experienced Present 143
Is Eternity Timelike or Spacelike? 144
Vale et Salve 146
7 The Roots of Eternity 147
Points, Lines, and Eternity 147
Eternity and Divine Simplicity 130
Eternity as an Answer to Abstractness 137
Contents
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8 Boethius: Foreknowledge, Eternity, and Simultaneity 159
Stump and Kretzmann on Time and Eternity 164
The Relativity of Simultaneity 163
The Stump-Kretzmann Definition 167
Can Events Be Temporally Present in Relation to Eternity? 167
Questions of Interpretation 168
Discrete Times and Eternity 175
Incommensurable Times and Eternity 17s
Another Approach 177
Other Problems 178
A Historical Footnote 181
9 Anselm: Eternity and Dimensionality 183
Anselm on Time and Eternity 184
Eternity in the Monologion 18s
Causal Presence 187
Why Temporal Omnipresence? 191
Omnipresence and Omniabsence 194
God’s Presence in Time 199
Simplicity and Temporal Omnipresence 203
Intrinsic Eternity 209
Eternity in the Proslogton 210
Anselm’s Later Work on Time and Eternity 212
10 A Theory of Time and Eternity 217
An Anselmian Advantage 217
From God’s Spacelessness to Creatures’ Timelessness 222
A Medieval Objection 228
An Objection; Does Occurring in Eternity Entail Tenseless Time? 2jo
An Objection; Must Whatever Occurs in Eternity Be Eternal? 235
Time and Eternity 238
Eternity and Tense 241
An Objection; Is Eternal Presence Otiose? 243
Applications 244
11 Timelessness, Freedom, and Foreknowledge 246
12 A Case for God s Timelessness 267
Timelessness and Infinite Time 267
Timelessness and Infinity 270
Timelessness and Necessary Existence 270
Timelessness and Spatiality 271
Timelessness and Omnipotence 273
Timelessness and the Modal Status of Time 273
Timelessness and the Creation of Time 273
Timelessness and the Creation of the Universe 275
Timelessness and the Beginning of Time 275
Timelessness, Creation, and Providence 277
Contents
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Timelcssness as Metaphysically Superior to Temporality 278
Timeless Life and Time’s Tooth 278
Timelessness and Perfect Knowledge of the Past 279
Timelcssness, Freedom, and Foreknowledge 280
Timelessness, Omniscience, and Divine Dialogue 280
Timelessness and God’s Foreknowledge of His Own Acts 281
The Road Ahead 282
13 Timelessness and Personhood 283
Mind and Time 283
Understanding and Time 283
Creation and Timelessness 2go
Sustaining and Timelessness 2Qi
Intentional Action and Timelessness 295
Passage, Power, and Timelessness 297
Some Other Mental Concepts 298
Timelessness and Freedom 299
Immutability and Timelcssness 302
Change of Will 302
Change of Property 309
14 Time, Actuality, and Omniscience 313
The Metaphysical Argument Stated 313
Recasting the Argument 317
Must God Know Whatever We Know? 321
How God Perceives Present-Actuality 327
Another Version 330
The Anselmian Approach 332
Factual Omniscience 333
15 Omniscience, Change, and Epistemic Indexicals 338
What Can the Blind Know about Colors? 339
Omniscience and What the Blind Can’t Know 342
Knowledge of Change 342
16 Timelessness and Religious Experience 349
Does Perception Locate the Perceived in Time? 349
A Second Argument against Observing the Timeless 333
17 Vale et Salve 360
References 363
Index
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