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Problems with a Concept of Eternal Present

Author(s): Marek Piwowarczyk
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: eternal present; atemporality; Alfred North Whitehead; Eleonore Stump and Norman Kretzmann

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to problems connected with a concept of eternal present. I analyze two such conceptions of maximally extended divine “now”: proposed by Stump and Kretzmann and proposed by Whitehead. Yet the article begins with the presentation Thomas Aquinas’ conception of eternity. On the ground of this theory “eternal now’ has only metaphorical meaning.

  • Issue Year: 60/2012
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 297-311
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish