lost in time

When I started to read this chapter I thought it was going to be about nonsense stuff but then while I read, I became a little more interested. I even got my own theory! The part were I got the most interest is about the moment now. Because there is not a now in time there’s only a past and a future because the now is just a fraction of time, so small that we can’t really live it.
Well I told you that I was going to give you my theory of time. First I started with the question. What is time? Because nobody could tell me an exact definition, I came to the conclusion that time does not exist. We humans came to the idea of inventing time but time does not exist. We think time exist because everything has a life cycle and we invented time to measure this cycles. As Aristotle said: “time is related to motion” well, I think time is motion, not related to motion. Also Savaatar says that time is different for everyone, I think this because time changes when you talk about different cycles of life, for example the age of dogs and humans. It is not the same to talk about 1 year for them or us. You my dear readers might think I’m already crazy but is just a point of view, another theory.
I want to finish by telling that whatever time is, it is happening so you shouldn’t waste any time in the past but in the future. You should live as it was your last day in your life.

Lost in Time

When I began reading “Lost in time”, I knew what we were about to talk, but I never thought time can get so interesting. We began with the “now” example, and my first reaction was wondering about the very moment I was living, but then I freaked out when I thought that what “I am living” all ready past! So… when is the present time exactly if we cannot catch it??
Then we got Aristotle’s point of view about time linked with movement, and I think most of us agree with him because we can even see it in the movies when time stops everything else is still or at least in slow motion. Also, I relate movement with time because every single action that we do, we measure it with time like.. “in the morning I went to school” I’m all ready implying time and action. And let’s just take a look to ourselves; we’re not the same as we were 10 years ago, we have changed physically! Meaning we had some kind of movement in time.
But then I read the phrase of Pierre de Ronsard “Time goes, time goes, my Lady, Alas, not time, we are the ones who go” that means that we believe that time passes but actually time is always present! What it appears to go it’s “our” time meaning our lives. This made me repeat myself that I am temporal and that I will have an end so, I need to wake up to do what I want and live for the moment, also to learn that the past can’t be changed and I need to move on and that it’s up to “now” how I want my future to be. I think we should leave all the fears from the past and the future and just enjoy the very moment.



ps. I leave you with this video that is not really related with time but I think that it has something to do with the book and the class.

TIME

The lost in time is a very interesting chapter, where Savater put me to think about time, time is something that we cannot control and we all are aware of that, in many situations we depend on time. Why is so difficult to think in time?, Savater make this question in the chapter and is so complicated because you cannot talk about the instant of time that you are passing, the “now” like for example, I am know talking about time, but the now is already passed when you even try to think about it, so time cannot be stopped, we can´t catch time, it just keep going.
Aristotle, the great philosopher made a great comment in this chapter, saying that time is linked to movement, “time passes because things happen or something happen to things”, this is totally correct because if you start analyzing this quote you notice that over the period of time things happen, something changes, we become older for example, but if anything happen to us or to things is like time have never passes, things change as time passes. One thing that we have to notice is that time never ends, what ends is our time, in other world our life that is changing over the time.

Lost in Time

In this chapter we read about time, Savater tried to explain what time is using the philosophies of different important people; however what caught my attention the most is what Pascal said about time. He talked not about what it is but how this time answers the question 'when?' and therefore divides time in past, present and future.

Anyways, as I was saying, I liked when Pascal said 'the past should not preoccupy us, since all we can do about it is regret our errors. But the future should concern us even less, since it has nothing to do with us and perhaps we might never reach it, the present is the only time that is truly ours.' (pg.169) I personally liked this reflection since it nowadays many people don't focus on the present and just regret past actions and worry how this will affect their future. Pascal explains really clearly and somewhat beautiful how one should solely worry about the present, and not even worry, but enjoy present.

I decided to talk about this in the final post rather than what time meant, since I believe the meaning of time has no special relation to us, is what comes with time, the actions, that make us enjoy, hate, hope, time in all of its 3 stages, past, present, and future. Finally I believe one should remember that even though we may not explain what time is by definition we can know that we should enjoy time as it passes and don't look back with regret or look ahead with anxiety, for at the present, what will happen is what we choose."Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today, today is a present".

Lost in Time

In this book Savetr talks about time, and one of the philosophers he makes reference to is Aristotle and how he supported the theory of future contingents, against the doctrine of destiny, where everything is already decided without the possibility of change.

When we talk about the future everything is uncertain, we can’t know what is going to happen, the contingent theory, though it supports this idea, narrows the possibilities of what could happen in the future. Savater explains this with the example of the naval battle, on the eve of the big fight we can assert two possibilities, there will be or there will not be a naval battle, we can’t have certainties about any of them, but we still know the possibilities.

I think this theory of an open future makes a lot of sense, because future is the one thing we can never be sure of, and when the contingents may narrow the possibilities of what is going to happen they never tell us what is actually happening, when we talk about future there is not most likely to. And even though those possibilities are not depending on us humans, like natural disasters, we always have an influence in what is going to happen, we can protect themselves against it, we don’t just stay aside and wait.