"That Time of Which We Have No Knowledge"
Location
Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
24-9-2014 3:00 PM
Description
Does everything that ever was or ever will be already exist or does only this moment of present actually exist? This is a question scientists, theologians and philosophers have pondered and researched for centuries if not millennia. However, reading literature written across time makes clear that writers in telling and constructing their stories at the very least reflect cultural norms and often explore these same questions regarding time. Readers of literature cannot help but be these differing understandings of time; less immediately apparent; however, are ways in which current scientific explanations of time can be seen in surprising ways in literature ranging from Anglo-Saxon times to modern science fiction.
Recommended Citation
Monteverde, Maggie, ""That Time of Which We Have No Knowledge"" (2014). Humanities Symposium. 18.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2014/2014/18
"That Time of Which We Have No Knowledge"
Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094
Does everything that ever was or ever will be already exist or does only this moment of present actually exist? This is a question scientists, theologians and philosophers have pondered and researched for centuries if not millennia. However, reading literature written across time makes clear that writers in telling and constructing their stories at the very least reflect cultural norms and often explore these same questions regarding time. Readers of literature cannot help but be these differing understandings of time; less immediately apparent; however, are ways in which current scientific explanations of time can be seen in surprising ways in literature ranging from Anglo-Saxon times to modern science fiction.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Academic Lecture