[Buddha-l] Time Is Not Real

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

curt schreef:

> The question of whether or not motion is possible was a hot topic back 
> in the day in Athens. One time a young hotshot would-be philosopher 
> tracked down Diogenes ("Socrates gone mad" - as Plato described him) 
> and started explaining to Diogenes how motion was impossible. The 
> young fellow felt that he had finally come up with an airtight case. 
> Diogenes listened for few minutes and then stood up and walked away.
> - Curt
> P.S. Several centuries after this alleged event, Diogenes Laertius 
> wrote his "Lives of the Ancient Philosophers". The later Diogenes was 
> an Epicurean, but he seems to have also had an affinity for Cynics 
> like his namesake. Diogenes' Laertius' chapter on Diogenes the Cynic 
> reads like a Zen "recorded sayings of" tract. Diogenes (the Cynics') 
> teacher even carried a big stick and used it to chase away people who 
> wanted to be his student.
>
> Bernie Simon wrote:
>
 Parmenides was the first of course, but Sextus Empiricus (2nd century, like Naagaarjuna) has similar arguments (Headlines of Pyrrhonism Book 3 XIX). Augustine also believed time to be a part of consciousness and Schopenhauer used this as proof that the world is just a representation. But since many people take only materialism to be a serious kind of philosophy, this kind of observations still hasn't convinced many. 

Erik


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