Of Time, Passion, and Knowledge: Reflections on the Strategy of Existence

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Princeton University Press, 1990 - Philosophy - 529 pages

"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.

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Contents

ASCENTBY WAY OF INTRODUCTION
3
PART
9
Being Becoming and Existential Tension
43
Predictable Futures
47
THE SEEKER
72
PART
95
The Living Symmetries of Physics
137
How to Deal with Conflicts
152
OUT OF THE DEPTHS
283
Some Implications of the Deep Structure of Time
313
PART FOUR
319
Collective Perceptions of Science as Truth
338
A Psychological Aside Pertaining to the Structure
350
A Mathematical Aside Pertaining to the Structure
356
ARTS LETTERS AND THE BEAUTIFUL
398
XII TIME AS CONFLICT
435

Estimates of Death
169
LIFE
178
Periodicity Primitive Life and Existential Tension
186
Aging and Death
192
Organic Evolution
208
The Mind of the Matter
233
ABBREVIATIONS FOR WORKS FREQUENTLY QUOTED
447
AUTHOR INDEX
509
387
516
440
529
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