Change rates
Chapter 2 - EGM
Back to Book content or Previous page - Next page
Or directly to Main Page - Worldview - Experiential Growth Method
Welcome to the Change rates page
Time as change
We know 'time' as how we experience the past differently from now and how we predict our future. Differences we can't change are our past, differences we expect to change our future.
Kant argues that the fact that we cannot dis-imagine time doesn’t tell us anything about the Universe. Instead, it tells us something about our minds. Time is rooted in us: it is a form of thought, a precondition for experiencing anything. Human minds are wired such that our experiences are always temporal, and that’s why we can’t even imagine a nontemporal world. Nonetheless, the world outside our heads, as it really is independent of us, might be nontemporal. Because we must perceive things in time, we don’t know what things-in-themselves are like.
Humanity devised three concepts of time: Chronos, Kairos, and Aeon. They are all related to the idea of time, but they have different meanings. Chronos refers to linear, measurable time, such as the time measured by a clock or calendar. It is often associated with the Greek god Chronos, the personification of time. Kairos refers to a specific moment in time that is considered particularly significant or opportune. It is often translated as "the right or opportune moment" and is less bound by the clock and more by the events happening. Aeon refers to an indefinitely long period, an age or an era. This term is often used in the context of beliefs and typically refers to an endless or infinite amount of time.
.
.
Chronos
Chronos is usually portrayed through an old, wise man with a long, grey beard, such as "Father Time". Some of the current English words whose etymological root is khronos/chronos include chronology, chronometer, chronic, anachronism, and chronicle.
| Read more about |
|---|
| Chronos |
.
.
Kairos
Kairos (Greek: Καιρος), in Greek mythology is the personification of the opportunity, the right moment to get something done.
| Read more about |
|---|
| Kairos |
.
.
Aeon
Aeon (Greek: Αἰών) is a Hellenistic deity associated with time, the orb or circle encompassing the universe. The "time" represented by Aeon is unbounded, in contrast to Chronos as empirical time divided into past, present, and future.
| Read more about |
|---|
| Aeon |
.
.
Back to Book content or Previous page - Next page