ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides some initial information on J.McT.E. McTaggart, his terms and his system. It describes McTaggart’s argument against time in more detail. The book looks at McTaggart’s suggestion for an temporal world as a replacement for the misleading world of time. It argues that McTaggart’s atemporal world is a strong foundation for a new atemporal thinking which can at last break away from the confusing philosophical models of temporality that confuse us more than time itself. McTaggart offers a replacement by providing an atemporal scheme which can be substituted for what we think is time. This replacement system answers many of our confusions about temporality as well as pointing us towards answers about other confusions that appearance in general presents us with.
