Eternity
Eternity is a state supposed to be independent of time and therefore had no beginning and no end.
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By extension of meaning, the word is used in everyday language to describe an amount of time infinite (or huge) and generally future. In familiar language, it is used to exaggerate something that seems interminable, as in the phrase "This conference takes forever! ", Or a time that seems long gone, as in the phrase" It's been ages since I have not seen you! .
Eternity in philosophy
Is it linear or cyclical? Nietzsche spoke of an eternal return. Eastern philosophies speak of the wheel of fate. Is perpetual renewal? Christian thought professes to believe in a permanent resurrection, which would be the best way not to degenerate, to renew hope. An eternity ring does not mean the same thing happens again and again. It implies rather a dynamic, changing and as the analogy with a spinning wheel (NB: on which axis? Remember with Ludwig Wittgenstein as a door opens, it is necessary that hinges are fixed) is luminous: first, the road is never really the same as and as we advance, and secondly, the cycle changes according to the distance traveled (in or wearing off will age as successful improvements).
A metaphysical idea, a concept like that of transcendent eternity is support in the physical, phenomenal in the Kantian sense. Eternity has a function ethically. This idea serves as a beacon.
Eternity in religion
In religious language, in any case a Christian, he is a subtraction from the grip of time. As such, it has neither beginning nor end, these terms do not have the same meaning. It is distinguished from the immortality which has a beginning and no end.
Thomas Aquinas distinguished in the Summa Theologica something that is separate from eternity as the immortality, and he called the aevum, but the concept still seems more clear today.
In some religions, God is called eternal because its existence has no beginning. Among Protestants, often called God Jehovah.
In the Catholic religion, if we are to believe the doctors of the Church as St. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas , time is a creation of God as well as space, and is linked to it. God is called the eternal Trinity.
In the Mormon religion ( Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ) distinction is made between the immortality given to all men whatsoever, and eternal life is to live eternally in God's presence, given those who have accepted the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Eternity in art
In the lyrical language, the word forever means a future without foreseeable end: the heroes of the Iliad and consider acquiring a glory for eternity.
For Renan , and in this sense: "Man can live without believing in eternity, but we need to believe in him and about him." It is indeed difficult to admit that we are ephemeral, and it often tries to leave a trace, as unobtrusive - even anonymously - it is, it passes.
U.S. director Woody Allen expressed in a facetious: Eternity is a long time. Especially towards the end. (He may have borrowed from Kafka, but check!)
In 1965, Isaac Asimov titled his novel of science fiction dealing with time travel The end of eternity.
Eternity is also the title of science-fiction novel of Greg Bear 's novel Eon who succeeded (Latin aeon, the name given to abstract entities and eternal, Aeon from the Greek "life, eternity, the divine"
Historia de la eternidad (Eternidad, 1936) is the title of an essay by the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges.
In his poem Dust (alidade, Evian, 2008), Carlo Bordini wrote:
"It's nice not to know. Do not know, for example,
How I live
live or how the earth.
This suspension
replaces eternity. "
See also
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External Links
- Eternity site Imago Mundi
- Eternity Bouquet of Philosophical , Christian website
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