PRINCIPLE HAS NO MATERIAL BASIS.
THE PAST HAS NO OBJECTIVE EXISTENCE.
THE FUTURE IS A SPECTRUM OF ALTERNATE POSSIBILITIES.
COMPETING ETHICAL SYSTEMS CO-EXIST IN VARIABLE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS.
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The best philosophical posture to take before an absurd universe is Stoicism. |
The Project Gutenberg eBook of Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
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The wiki of it...
"Philosophical presentism is the view that only present entities exist (or, equivalently, that everything is present). According to presentism, then, there are no wholly past or merely future entities whatsoever. In a sense, the past and the future do not exist for presentists—past events have happened (have existed) and future events will happen (will exist), but neither exist at all since they do not exist now."
"Presentism is a view about temporal ontology that contrasts with eternalism—the view that past, present, and future entities co-exist (that is, the ontological thesis of the block universe theory)—and with no-futurism—the view that only past and present entities exist; that is, the ontological thesis of the growing block theory."
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(C) Miguel Angel Torres, Emmanuel Goldstein, Wikipedia.
The case for eternalism is confirmed by the latest research in QM / physics. (wiki:) "Eternalism (philosophy of time), the philosophical theory which takes the view that all points in time are equally "real", as opposed to the Presentism (philosophy of time) idea that only the present is real. Positive belief in the eternity of the world or the law of conservation of energy." Past, Present and Future seem to exist as one in one continuum. The passage of time might be an illusion. If this is correct, then the socially constructed concepts of time and time itself are only categories we created in order to organize chronical information (history).
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