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.
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Hi Illeana! I am in the same position you are, we humans cannot control time, and we are aware of that. When we want to describe time, it is the most difficult thing on earth, because we live with it, but we cannot have the control of it, and sometimes, it can be extremely stressing. I always wish I could control time, so that I could have enough time for finishing horrible exams, such as philosophy exam.
ReplyDeleteControlling time would signify that we not only have control of our past and future actions but also of those of others and therefore would be chaotic to try to change everything as there would be constant changing versions of life and constant changes in history that would eventually create a great confusion among us.
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