1, 2, 3 in a hurry
time flies we rush with?
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Multiple Clock Principle
Multiple Clock Principle (deutsche Version) While technically manufactured clocks display time continuously across many scales—from milliseconds to the calendar year—biological clocks tick differently. There are many different types, each of which displays time very specifically only at certain scales. Neuroscientist Dean Buonomano…
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One Sun, Many Days
One Sun, Many Days (deutsche Version) Sunrise and daybreak refer to one and the same phenomenon. Yet we speak of the one sun that appears again and again in the morning and the countable different days that follow one another. This antagonistic…
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Questionable what-is-it questions
Questionable what-is-it questions (deutsche Version) We have a great competence in dealing with time. We often forget that this competence is not innate, but is learned with difficulty in the course of socialization. Despite this competence, the question that Augustine asked himself…
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The Right Time
The Right Time (deutsche Version) Seizing an opportunity at the right time is an ambivalent practical recommendation because it also requires a decision about a choice with unforeseen consequences. It can pave the way to the hoped-for success. But it can also…
New items with reflections about time …
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Experience of Time
Dimensions of the Experience of Time (deutsche Version) „Everyone lives with peers and those of different ages in a wealth of simultaneous possibilities. For each person, the same time is a different time, namely a different age of themselves, which they share…
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Order of Time
The Order of Time in the Mirror of History (deutsche Version) „The question that people of earlier societies sought to answer, the primary question of humanity, was not: ‚What is the moon or the sun?‘ and certainly not: ‚Are they of mineral,…
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Committed to the Moment
The Commitment to the Moment (deutsche Version) „There are three points in time: the right one, the missed one, and the premature one.“ – (Stan Nadolny) – The compulsion to choose between the many options the world offers, of which usually only…
New brief descriptions of the time concepts of relevant authors …
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Koselleck (en)
Reinhard Koselleck (deutsche Version) The starting point for Koselleck’s conception of historical time is experience and expectation, which he understands as the most general, anthropologically predetermined, formal cognitive categories (conditions) for the possibility of historical conceptions. These concepts do not stand alone,…
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Colpe (en)
Carsten Colpe (deutsche Version) Colpe has presented a stage theory of the historical development toward a concept of time in ancient civilizations converging to our understanding. He initially distinguishes two independent lines of development, namely the discovery and cultural recording of historically…
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Kuemmel (en)
Friedrich Kümmel (deutsche Version) At the heart of Kümmel’s considerations is the temporal management of change and transformation, which must be carried out in the present, because, according to Kümmel, whatever wants to be done can only be done “now”. Kümmel distinguishes…
Time in the mirror of literature …
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Ancient chronology
Ancient chronology as reflected in the sources (deutsche Version) Roland Färber, Rita Gautschy (Hg.), Zeit in den Kulturen des Altertums – Antike Chronologie im Spiegel der Quellen (2020) – It may seem paradoxical at first glance that a book on ancient chronology,…