Why Do I Keep Existing? A Lecture on Being | Prof. Paul Symington
The Thomistic Institute
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Present Things Do Not Remain Present
We're looking at a premise of an argument in support of this premise, which is that present things remain present. But there's a reason for rejecting this claim in favor of the idea that present things do not remain in the present. To get at why this may be the case, we need to look at a famous distinction by McTaggart between the not so creatively named A and B series accounts of the temporal ordering of events. What operationalizes these properties is the mysterious passage of time.
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