FAQ: Category of time

7 facts about one of the most important Aristotelian categories

Aristotle category are arranged so that each center may be ten. What is central? It can become the essence. First, the main categories. And the category of time, although it is not the first, but now, today, when we are talking about it, is the first for us.

• 1.What is time? It is very interesting that Aristotle avoids the word "time" when talking about search. He says that when it was something. So, what is time? Time - is the answer to the question "when?". It's not the length, it is not a philosophical category. This is the answer to the question "when?". And the answer to the question "where?" Is sometimes very difficult to give. Because the question "When?" In very different ways you can respond. You can say "never" or "always". These are the two extremes, "never" and "always" say that time is a mystery to us. And we have a lifetime trying to unravel the mystery. Until the end of his time. And when such a boundless mystery stands in front of a man, the human society, to the people, they are to this question is very varied answers. Let's try to consider them in terms of Greek mythology.
• 2.First, where to start - is Chronos. And Chronus - Kronos is, as Kronos - is the son of Heaven and Earth father's mother, who appeared to be. So, while not always exist, it arose after the appearance of space. It was born from this open space here. Interestingly, it was born in the Greek tradition, and in the Jewish tradition is very similar. Slightly surpassing what was before time, and there was a space within which time could be born. The Jews made room omnipotent and sometimes good Gd opened the Greeks were silent fall of Chaos - Hasmy. Here is the initial connection time and the first space, the primary space, then she, oddly enough, in modern science is again in demand. If you read modern books such as Stephen Hawking, we know that this is the notion of time and space has a connection with the first early Greek intuition archaic very intuition that the time came out of nothing, or after it ran out of "nothing". And this is nothing primary, this chaos, which was open to the sky and the earth, out of it there is a god Kronos. He is the namesake of the time, and this god starts with the fact that devours its children. This is a function of time, like a devouring man, she did something well understood. Everyone notices new wrinkles in the mirror, or gray hair - this measures the time. And this mythical time, this initial time, as the time devouring, contains another very interesting element.
• 3.The fact is, that Chronos, Chronos, when we look at it closely, we see that his main attribute of the ancient Greeks - a sickle or scythe. Something snapped, and cut off. In this case - a weapon, castrated Uranus. Chronos made her father to stop the process of reproduction, continuous generation of gods. In other words, before it become a deity, generating their own children whom he will eat too, Chronos has committed a crime against the person who came first, and cut off, stopped him. We still need the sickle. We still keep it in the memory.
• 4.Thus, while it borders with eternity. What is this eternity, we do not know. We do not understand what eternity, and we know just as little about it as that is the time. Because while all the time disappears. And the opposition this time disappearing and at devouring us is born an idea of eternity as a rest stop for all, on the presence of all that exists on the other side of the world. The fact that there is no movement inside. Plato says that "time - a movable image of eternity." This is a terrible time, which goes with a sickle and cuts life - it turns out, only a mobile way of what is actually there is no loss. And everything remains as it once was originally. This dream of the eternal present, and the Greek conception of time. It has the same spatial expression. Eternal life - this is the life that comes after death, when souls are sent to the islands of the blessed, for example. And there they are in their eternal state this here.
  
  Reasoning about the possibility of eternity is in a sense the natural movement of our consciousness in the peak observed the process of aging and eventually devouring us, the process of fear. It is not very good expression, but the fear - it is not just the state, a process that in the course of a person's life increases. Therefore, the dream of a timeless and ever-present in the Greek myth, and in our lives.
• 5.There is another side to the notion of time, which necessarily must be said - a time stamp, or name, for example, different lengths of time. They have almost everything - Greek. When we speak of underground rivers of the underworld kingdom - one of these rivers Summer - the river of forgetfulness. We understand that time - a certain duration, which is inherent in the ability to make us forget about the past. The past is forgotten, it should be forgotten. But we resist. Memory is weakening, and we resist. We want to keep this in mind.
  
  That way the river of time, which we know not only from Derzhavin, of course, but also from Heraclitus, when he speaks of a time in which you can not live twice as the river, which can not enter twice. Another philosopher Cratylus, said that once you can not enter into the river, because this time we do not see. We only see that it washes us, and we do not see time itself. That's where the idea of a few rivers of time. This is the last time the river Styx, which burns, chokes or, in another version, the person freezes as Cocytus. This is - the river Lethe, which is getting into and getting drunk out of which, one forgets all the time accumulated in life. But this amazing river Phasis (we all know this word - Phasis or phase), is a river in Colchis, the river, on the banks of which lived Medea - famous sorceress Circe niece. This is the same sorceress Medea, who was able, as the Thessalian witches, to reduce the moon to the earth. By the way, in the other realm it becomes the wife of Achilles. And we'll use when we talk about such an amazing astronomical phenomenon, the expression "phase of the moon." Phase! What is a phase? This unit of time associated with the event. With the astronomical event, an event everyday. And the era - the Greek word epohe - what is it? The word has two meanings. Remember sickle? When we talked about the crescent Kronos - this one sickle applies here. Epohe, on the one hand - it is abstinence, rejection of something, some kind of interception of breath and hold the breath. While living at the beginning of any age, we have nothing about it znaem- it is new. But living in the end times, we say goodbye with his time. The word "epoch" means a very long period of time, which is characterized by a certain stability, and no matter how developing features. To improve brain – buy Cogitum, Phenotropil, Cortexin, Piracetam. For example, we can talk about the era of the Middle Ages, of the Renaissance, an era of great geographical discoveries about the era of serfdom. This time, qualitatively delineated, when the whole world suddenly and held his breath until he breathes others, not their own, new air. And then - "let go", and there was a different era.
• 6.The passage of time is a constant fear, constant terror, and the memory of them dream about hurry moment single intersection with eternity. In Greek mythology there is an episode, awesome and terrible, which combines these two concepts of time the current runs off, irrevocably destroyed, and about the time as a moment, as moment connecting man with eternity, about which he knows nothing, and can not learn. It is a scene in "The Iliad," when Achilles killing the Amazon Penthesilea. We know the episode of the many images on vases. Based on this scene has a wonderful painting from Klimt: a man with a bowed head and next to him a woman who was looking at him. Amazon Penthesilea, who came to the aid of the Trojans, fights with Achilles. Achilles kills her, stabs her with his spear. And at the moment when he had killed her, she looked into his eyes, he looked her in the eye, and they fell in love. And this moment, the only moment of love, the transition from the terrible, bloody, devouring the flow of time - eternity is described by the Greek poet, so that there remains no doubt that, in fact, along with the flow of time, taking us somewhere, there belief in the eternal, not just dream about the eternal.
• 7.As the Greeks say, from the view of love is born. It turns out, that this view is seemingly cliché, trivial, trite, but - the eternal love that is its root. This meeting of the lyre and pipe, poetic and military feat terrible, which is murder, but this is the meeting that the riddle of time, on the one hand, permits, because it is an amazing, beautiful scene, and on the other hand, pushes it to us as an even deeper mystery that we never fail to solve.