ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses McTaggart's argument for the unreality of time. The purpose is to make explicit how his views about the general nature of the Existent in Absolute Reality guide every step of his reasoning. McTaggart states his intention to prove that time is unreal and makes it clear that he anticipates that the conclusion will be received as a 'departure from the natural position of mankind', and a far greater departure than a rejection of the reality of space or of material reality. The chapter presents that what McTaggart refers to as the prima facie appearance of time is the way we unreflectively represent temporal reality in our minds in broader cognitive sense: basically, how we unreflectively think time. It focuses the McTaggart is talking about the same feature that E. Husserl described in more elaborate detail under the labels retention and protention.
