ABSTRACT

Time is regarded as a problem not only for religious philosophies but for practically all metaphysics. Time can only be known and pointed to, but never defined or explained or understood. The religious interest is first and foremost the desire to apprehend God and one may say, the author thinks, that there are some questions to which the religious interest in the problem of time is directed. There are certain obvious analogies between time and some spatial objects and this has led to the description of time in spatial figures. The author think we must say that there is, if Professor Broad is right, as he think he is, in describing the future as non-existent and giving, as the characteristic of the present, that it precedes literally nothing at all. It is important not to confound the proposition that the future is already determined with the proposition that the future already exists.