Free Essays on Time

What if one had the ability to â€Å"freeze† time? This ability may not exist directly, but many philosophers believe that time is, though not quite frozen, stationary. Other philosophers believe the opposite is true - that time is cyclical, revolving, moving. Time is the subject of an amazing philosophical debate of its nature, its role in the history of thought and action, its bearing on human emotions, and how it affects religious views. A question that every philosopher of time faces is whether or not time flows or is stationary. The two possible answers, that time flows as a rate of change with respect to something else, or that people advance through a stationary time, are constantly in debate. If time actually does flow, it would have to flow with respect to something else. Flow as a rate of change is such a type of motion that it would cause a sort of hypertime to be created This hypertime would also have to flow, therefore having a hyper-hypertime, which would have a hyper-hyper-hypertime, and so on; the flow of time would include a flow of something else that would include the flow of something else, and so on. The idea that time flows is extremely confusing, if not impractical. The idea that time is stationary and that humans advance through it makes much more sense. Stationary time would mean that the passage of time is an illusion. This idea indicates that human consciousness advances up a timelike direction - that because of human consciousness and perception, time has relevance in people’s lives where it would not if humans did not impose it upon themselves. The idea that time is stationary and that humans pass through it is indeed the popular view. Philosophers who maintain this belief are of two types: process philosophers and philosophers of the manifold. Process philosophers maintain that the flow of time (or human advance through it) can be understood only by â€Å"nonrational intuition† (â€Å"time†). They beli... Free Essays on Time Free Essays on Time What if one had the ability to â€Å"freeze† time? This ability may not exist directly, but many philosophers believe that time is, though not quite frozen, stationary. Other philosophers believe the opposite is true - that time is cyclical, revolving, moving. Time is the subject of an amazing philosophical debate of its nature, its role in the history of thought and action, its bearing on human emotions, and how it affects religious views. A question that every philosopher of time faces is whether or not time flows or is stationary. The two possible answers, that time flows as a rate of change with respect to something else, or that people advance through a stationary time, are constantly in debate. If time actually does flow, it would have to flow with respect to something else. Flow as a rate of change is such a type of motion that it would cause a sort of hypertime to be created This hypertime would also have to flow, therefore having a hyper-hypertime, which would have a hyper-hyper-hypertime, and so on; the flow of time would include a flow of something else that would include the flow of something else, and so on. The idea that time flows is extremely confusing, if not impractical. The idea that time is stationary and that humans advance through it makes much more sense. Stationary time would mean that the passage of time is an illusion. This idea indicates that human consciousness advances up a timelike direction - that because of human consciousness and perception, time has relevance in people’s lives where it would not if humans did not impose it upon themselves. The idea that time is stationary and that humans pass through it is indeed the popular view. Philosophers who maintain this belief are of two types: process philosophers and philosophers of the manifold. Process philosophers maintain that the flow of time (or human advance through it) can be understood only by â€Å"nonrational intuition† (â€Å"time†). They beli... Free Essays on Time It is apparent to all of us that life is an obstacle in itself. Our goal is to get through all of life’s troubles that are thrown at us and enjoy the good times that come, take nothing for granted and appreciate life itself. We also must focus on the present and forget about the past and future because we cannot change the past, and we are always aware of the fact the future will bring new challenges. The aforementioned thoughts are explained thoroughly in the song, â€Å"Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)† by Green Day. There is no way to stop time from passing by, but we can control time rather that it controlling us. In my opinion, Green Day does not provide a good definition of how we should define time. I think that we should manage our time, so that we can control our future rather than the future controlling us. From the first line of the song â€Å"Another turning point another fork stuck in the road†(1), we learn that the poem is going to explain the author’s view of time. When I first read these words a feeling of negativity passes through my mind because most of the time when transition occurs in our life there is a lost feeling in our mind. This lost feeling is then explained more thoroughly in the next group of words in the poem. When someone refers to a fork stuck in the road, the first thing that comes to my mind is struggle. It means that something got in the way, which caused the people to take another path. From experience, I know that switching paths and changing your goals and/or dreams, is not easy. Throughout the poem, transition is used both lines and verses to show the true meaning of time in the song. Transitions in music are a single line or group of lines in the song that help reader to better understand the total meaning of the song. As we move to the second line, â€Å"Time grabs you by the wrist directs you where to go† (2), time is described in a new sense. In this line time serves as som...