Eternity, Relative Realities, and Ontological Idealism About Time

Autor: Moravec, Matyáš
Přispěvatelé: Moravec, Matyáš [0000-0001-8477-6065], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, University of St Andrews. Philosophy
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: TheoLogica, Vol 5, Iss 1 (2021)
ISSN: 2593-0265
DOI: 10.14428/thl.v5i1.31723
Popis: The writing of this paper was supported by funding from a studentship hosted by the Cambridge Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Training Partnership and Pembroke College, Cambridge (Grant Number: AH/L503897/1, Grant Recipient: Matyáš Moravec). This paper argues that idealism can offer a new solution to the problem of relating the “static” presence of things to eternity and the “dynamic” passage of reality in the temporal realm. I first offer a presentation of this problem using the dispute between Aquinas and Scotus, then describe “ontological idealism about time,” as a smaller–scale idealism, and show how it resolves the original problem. I conclude by demonstrating that this view is consonant with the recent emphasis on the ontological dependence of things on God and that it offers a way of bringing together non–eternalist ontologies and the ontological conclusions posited by the special theory of relativity. Publisher PDF
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