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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"philosophy of time"”.
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Re-Thinking Anthropomorphism Through a Genetic Philosophy of Time
… Christian theological understanding, God and time are tightly interwoven (e.g. time and eternity, the Incarnation, and liturgy) and inform how we comprehend the presence and absence of the Incomprehensible in our day-to-day lives. Yet the classical Christian understanding does not take into …
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The Philosophy of Time in Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, and The Waves
… research project considers various philosophies of time as they are represented in the writing of Virginia Woolf. The project frames the discussion with the idea that Woolf’s work embodies these pre-existing theories in revolutionary ways. The three specific texts examined for this research are …
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The Mythic Conquest of Time in Faulkner's Fiction
… he agrees with Henri Bergson's optimistic philosophy of time, a philosophy that emphasizes human freedom and action precisely as they relate to time. However, many of Faulkner's characters are defined by their stagnant and lethargic personalities which cannot change; these characters are …
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A Philosophical Reappraisal of Henry More’s Theory of Divine Space
This project provides a philosophical reappraisal of Henry More’s theory of divine space, which—through Newton—became part of the metaphysical foundations of the new physics. Of course, this space was soon secularized into an impersonal ether, then seemingly relativized by Einstein. However, some …
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Michael Tippett's Philosophy of Musical and Eschatological Time and Its Implications for Christian Theology
The tension between prevalent conflicting notions of theological time and God’s temporality calls for a new, unified approach to time rooted in biblical theology. This project proposes that a study of Tippett’s musical aesthetics and philosophy of time can be an important tool in the discussion of …
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Henri Bergson, Duree Reelle and high modernism.
The cultural status and popular appeal of the philosopher Henri Bergson in the first decade of the 20th century is said to have exceeded even that of his fellow Parisian, Jean-‐Paul Sartre in the 1950s. Bergson was an important influence on modernism, achieving a particular resonance with the …
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The Intensity of Recollection-Images in Suspicious River and The Law of Enclosures
There is a long tradition of film scholarship dealing with the representation of time in cinema, generally focusing on the techniques that signify more or less explicitly temporal shifts in the unfolding of the narrative. Some of these critical approaches to the representation of time are useful in …
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Time, Institutions, and Energy
It has become apparent to me that time, institutions, and energy are three critical factors with significant implications for entrepreneurship. Time and energy are integral concepts to our existence as evidenced by their frequent usage in conventional language. Institutions are the overarching …
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Schelling's Ages of the World: The Beginning of the Beginning
<p>This dissertation traces the development of Schelling's philosophy of time as it appears in <em>the Ages of the World,</em> a work which Schelling himself never completed but which he clearly intended as his magnum opus. My project focuses on Schelling's claim that time is the absolute, a claim …
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Time in Nicolai Hartmann's philosophy
… The first (only in Italian) is an analysis of some texts about time in Nicolai Hartmann's works, and especially in Möglichkeit und Wirklichkeit (1938) and Philosophie der Natur (1950). The second part is a theoretical discussion of one of the main problems concerning time in the …
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Temporality, authorial intentions, and truth in video game fiction
… differ fundamentally from other media in terms of fictional truth. Fictional truth has been treated extensively in the field of philosophy of fiction, primarily in relation to literature and, to a certain extent, film, but video games have been far too neglected. Truth in game fiction has been …
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"The conceit of this inconstant stay": Shakespeare's Philosophical Conquest of Time Through Personification
… beloved young man, the poet personifies time as an agent of relentlessly destructive change. Yet Shakespeare's approach to the personification of time, as well as his reactions to time, changes over the course of the sequence. He transforms his fear of and obsession with time as a …