What is Time?

Intuition of Time

I experience as moving from past through present and future.

Immanuel Kant

Time is unreal. It is a mental contrast. Our minds use space and time as systems to organize or senses

Eternity

complete possession of boundless perfection, all at once, without beginning succession or end, with out before or after

Objective view of time

fixed set of moments

henri bergson argued that

human beings have an intuition of time

J.M.E McTaggart

makes a distinction between objective and subjective time/ A&B series, but only a-series is real

b-series

objective, before and after

according to st. augustine

only the present moment is real

time

product of the mind, measurement which can only be formed by the mind

Subjective view of time

sequence of flowing moments

a-series

subjective ( future, present, past)

Mctaggart argued that

subjective time is not real

kant claimed

that time is a mental construct of the understanding which is necessary to think of our sensations

Henri Bergson

Only subjective time is real. What we directly experience is real.

St. Augustine

time in a sense doesn't exist, only the present moment exists

Mental Construct Theory of Time

time is an ever-changing sensation, a jumble of meaningless sense impressions, but the mind imposes order

God is outside of time

time is fixed on Gods perspective