ABSTRACT
General principle which underlies—implicitly or explicitly—many scientific, philosophical, religious, and ethical theories, and which likewise conditions a number of more special ideologies, beliefs, and convictions, is the principle of Eternalism as against Temporalism. As to the classification of the main solutions of the problem, the main classes into which all the solutions fall are; The ideology of Being, or eternalism, which stresses that the true ultimate reality is an unchangeable super- or all-time being. Any change or any Becoming is either pure illusion or something secondary. The ideology of Becoming, or temporalism, according to which the true reality is an incessant change, a never-ceasing flux, where any moment differs from another, with its "earlier-later," "before-after," and other time references. The reduction of change to being has consisted in attempts to show that Becoming is either nonexistent or unreal, or represents nothing but a specific aspect of being.
