PHILOS 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: J. M. E. Mctaggart, Bertrand Russell, British Idealism
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Lecture 5: proof of the unreality of time by prof. sven bernecker. British philosopher who taught at trinity college, cambridge university. Brith name = john mctaggart ellis, after maternal grand-uncle, john. Mctaggart: family took surname as condition of inheritance from maternal. Exponent of philosophy of georg wilhelm friedrich hegel (1770-1831) grand-uncle and among most notable of british idealists. Mctaggart"s idealism consisted largely in the denial that we usually take to be central features of reality are, in fact, real: much of work devoted to exposing contradictions/difficulties inherent in our realist picture of the world. Most famous argument: our ordinary view that things exist in time is false: presented in 1908 paper, the unreality of time , we will be looking at his later (1927) exposition of the argument. Rewrote his article see original argument plus responses to critics (most notably bertrand russell) A-series and b-series of time temporal aspects of events: Mctaggart distinguishes two kinds of expression for characterizing the.
