The Reality of Time - Errol E. Harris - Bog

Preface
I. Introduction: The Nature and Vindication
Prevalent Repudiation of Metaphysics
What is Metaphysics?
The Restoration of Metaphysics
II. Metaphysical Problems of Time
Passage, Movement, and Measurement
How Do We Identify the Present?
Change, Permanence, and the Transcendence of Passage
Spinoza Provides a Clue
III. Physical Time
Attempts to Eliminate Passage from Physical Time
Process, Order, and Chaos
The Paradoxes of Zeno
Cosmic Time
Time Reversal
Cosmic History and Cosmic Unity
IV. Biological Time
Organism and Duree
The Emergence of Life
Evolution
Environment and Biological Clocks
Behavior
Biocoenoses
Conclusion
V. Psychological Time
The Stream of Consciousness
The Specious Present
Time and the Transcendental Subject
The Problem of the Transcendental Ego
Soultion to the Problem
VI. Historical Time
Res Gestae
The Idea of the Historical Past
The Historical Process
Structuralism and Deconstructionism
VII. Dialectic in History
Historical Thinking
Transformation of Conceptual Schemes
The Dialectical Scale
Historical Objectivity
The Historical Universal
VIII. Evolution and Omega
Evolution , Diachronic, and Synchronic
The Features of Wholeness
Differentiation and Process
The Clue to "Omega"
Omega and Time
Omega and Deity
"Mysticism"
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index