Of Time, Passion, and Knowledge"Only a wayfarer born under unruly stars would attempt to put into practice in our epoch of proliferating knowledge the Heraclitean dictum that `men who love wisdom must be inquirers into very many things indeed.'" Thus begins this remarkable interdisciplinary study of time by a master of the subject. And while developing a theory of "time as conflict," J. T. Fraser does offer "many things indeed"--an enormous range of ideas about matter, life, death, evolution, and value. |
Contents
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Oriental Concepts of Time | 39 |
Predictable Futures | 47 |
Events and Processes | 69 |
Three Modules of the Shortterm Present | 76 |
PART | 95 |
The Living Symmetries of Physics | 137 |
The Mind as Strategy | 257 |
OUT OF THE DEPTHS | 283 |
Some Implications of the Deep Structure of Time | 313 |
PART FOUR | 319 |
RELIGION POLITICS AND THE GOOD | 361 |
The Good Emergence and War | 387 |
ARTS LETTERS AND THE BEAUTIFUL | 398 |
The Freedom of the Beautiful | 432 |
How to Deal with Conflicts | 152 |
Estimates of Death | 169 |
LIFE | 178 |
The Mind of the Matter | 233 |
ABBREVIATIONS FOR WORKS FREQUENTLY QUOTED | 447 |
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