A Perpetual Present: Henri Bergson and Atemporal Duration
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that adjusting Stump and Kretzmann's "atemporal duration" with la durée, a key concept in the philosophy of Henri Bergson (1859-1941), can respond to the most significant objections aimed at Stump and Kretzmann's re-interpretation of Boethi...
| Published in: | European journal for philosophy of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
[2019]
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European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bergson, Henri 1859-1941, Durée et simultanéité
/ Bergson, Henri 1859-1941, L' évolution créatrice
/ Bergson, Henri 1859-1941, La conscience et la vie
/ Bergson, Henri 1859-1941, Matière et mémoire
/ Eternity
/ Timelessness
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism |
| Further subjects: | B
atemporal duration
B God and time B Boethius B Stump and Kretzmann B Henri Bergson |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (KW) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that adjusting Stump and Kretzmann's "atemporal duration" with la durée, a key concept in the philosophy of Henri Bergson (1859-1941), can respond to the most significant objections aimed at Stump and Kretzmann's re-interpretation of Boethian eternity. This paper deals with three of these objections: the incoherence of the notion of "atemporal duration," the impossibility of this duration being time-like, and the problems involved in conceiving it as being related to temporal duration by a relation of analogy. I conclude that "atemporal duration" (which has unfortunately come to be regarded with suspicion by most analytic philosophers of religion)?—?when combined with Bergson's durée to become an "atemporal durée"?—?is a coherent understanding of divine eternity. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v0i0.2629 |