TY - JOUR
T1 - Perpetual present
T2 - Henri Bergson and atemporal duration
AU - Moravec, Matyáš
N1 - Funding Information:
80 I am greatly indebted to Sarah Coakley, Ryan Mullins, Jacob Sherman, anonymous reviewers of the EJPR and participants of the Summer School on The Nature of God: Personal and A-Personal Concepts of the Divine (Innsbruck, Austria, 25th July — 9th August 2018) for comments on earlier versions of this paper. This paper was supported by funding from a studentship hosted by the Cambridge Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Training Partnership and Pembroke College, Cambridge.
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© 2019, European Journal for Philosophy of Religion.
PY - 2019/9/19
Y1 - 2019/9/19
N2 - The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that adjusting Stump and Kretzmann's "atemporal duration" with la durée, a key concept in the philosophy of Henri Bergson (1859-1941), can respond to the most significant objections aimed at Stump and Kretzmann's re-interpretation of Boethian eternity. This paper deals with three of these objections: the incoherence of the notion of "atemporal duration," the impossibility of this duration being time-like, and the problems involved in conceiving it as being related to temporal duration by a relation of analogy. I conclude that "atemporal duration" (which has unfortunately come to be regarded with suspicion by most analytic philosophers of religion) - when combined with Bergson's durée to become an "atemporal durée" - is a coherent understanding of divine eternity.
AB - The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that adjusting Stump and Kretzmann's "atemporal duration" with la durée, a key concept in the philosophy of Henri Bergson (1859-1941), can respond to the most significant objections aimed at Stump and Kretzmann's re-interpretation of Boethian eternity. This paper deals with three of these objections: the incoherence of the notion of "atemporal duration," the impossibility of this duration being time-like, and the problems involved in conceiving it as being related to temporal duration by a relation of analogy. I conclude that "atemporal duration" (which has unfortunately come to be regarded with suspicion by most analytic philosophers of religion) - when combined with Bergson's durée to become an "atemporal durée" - is a coherent understanding of divine eternity.
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U2 - 10.24204/EJPR.V0I0.2629
DO - 10.24204/EJPR.V0I0.2629
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85074007993
SN - 1689-8311
VL - 11
SP - 197
EP - 224
JO - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion
JF - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion
IS - 3
ER -