Kirjahaku

This work shows us that by taking time seriously we can discover something essential to almost every question of human concern. It asks, ""Are we IN time?"" and considers time in conjunction with cognition, morality, action, physical nature, being, God, freedom, and politics. Charles Sherover's essays, while drawing upon Royce, Heidegger, Kant, Leibniz, and even Hartshorne and Bergson, defy categorization by method or school; instead, they reveal the diversity and divergence of thinking about time as well as the myriad features and values within the omnipresence of time and change. The volume gives an overview of the history of thought on time and a clarification of some fundamental conceptual distinctions in temporal ideas. It then offers a critique of Kant, the first thinker to recognize that all human experience has a temporal form. In a series of essays on metaphysics - a corrective to the dominant metaphysical tradition of talking about being as if time does not matter - the work pursues temporal responses to such problems as being, internal relations, individuation, mind, and free will.

In this study, Charles M. Sherover argues that there is a single, substantial line of development that can be traced from the work of Leibniz through Kant and Royce to Heidegger. Sherover traces a movement from deep within the roots of German idealism through Royce's insights into American pragmatism to the ethical ramifications of Heidegger's existential phenomenology, and then provides an analysis of the neglected ethical and political implications of Heidegger's Being and Time. The essays lead finally to Sherover's own view of the self as a member of a moral and political community.