Summary of Alon Halperin's The Network of Time

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#1 The Bible has two points of view on time: the point of view of the regular axis of time which we experience as part of the beings of creation, and the point of view of God who exists outside of time and perceives the past, present, and future in one eternal and unified image.

#2 The pre-Socratic philosopher Parmenides believed that change and movement are not possible since the world is one, eternal and frozen. Since change and movement are the fundamental expressions of our experience of time, then if change and movement do not exist, neither does time.

#3 The paradox of Achilles and the tortoise is a beautiful and simple example of how we cannot rely on our sense perception when it comes to the world around us. According to Zeno, we can never overcome the infinite number of segments of distance and time between the tortoise and Achilles.

#4 The Arrow Paradox states that if a Greek warrior fires an arrow at the skies of Athens, and we observe it as it moves through the air, the arrow will never reach its destination. It will always be at rest. How does it move from one point to the next if it is at rest in each.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822529953

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#1

The Bible has two points of view on time: the point of view of the regular axis of time which we experience as part of the beings of creation, and the point of view of God who exists outside of time and perceives the past, present, and future in one eternal and unified image.

#2

The pre-Socratic philosopher Parmenides believed that change and movement are not possible since the world is one, eternal and frozen. Since change and movement are the fundamental expressions of our experience of time, then if change and movement do not exist, neither does time.

#3

The paradox of Achilles and the tortoise is a beautiful and simple example of how we cannot rely on our sense perception when it comes to the world around us. According to Zeno, we can never overcome the infinite number of segments of distance and time between the tortoise and Achilles.

#4

The Arrow Paradox states that if a Greek warrior fires an arrow at the skies of Athens, and we observe it as it moves through the air, the arrow will never reach its destination. It will always be at rest. How does it move from one point to the next if it is at rest in each.

#5

The arrow paradox is a demonstration that in the real world, there is no movement or change. Since these are only an illusion, so is time. We cannot define time since time does not exist and is an invention of our consciousness.

#6

The problem with the concept of time is that it is something we cannot fully understand or explain. It is something we must simply experience. When we attempt to define time using the concept of movement, we arrive at a contradiction.

#7

Eastern philosophy shares the belief that the internal relations between all objects and events, and even the experience of all phenomena in the world, are expressions of one reality. This is an ultimate reality that is inseparable, and it is expressed in everything that makes up the world.

#8

The view of space and time in eastern philosophy is more similar to the relativistic approach, which views space and time as unified entities that do not allow them to have a separate existence in the world.

#9

The first theologian to discuss the significance of time was Aurelius Augustinus, a Christian philosopher and theologian who wrote an autobiographical book called Confessions. He believed that God created the world within the axis of time, and that time had existed before the act of creation. He believed that time did not exist, and that the present was a meaningless point with no content.

#10

The distinction between two views of time, presentism and eternalism, is important in the philosophical discussion of the