Why Do I Keep Existing? A Lecture on Being | Prof. Paul Symington
The Thomistic Institute
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Aristotle's Theory of Change
Some claim that things don't remain in the present, rather they pass from future to past. It is as if things are frozen still in thepresent, so the counter reason goes. What can be said in response to the view that present things remaining in the present is inconsistent with the fact of change? I have two strategies here. The first is to turn the criticism around upon the spotlight view of the present and argue that on that view of time there can be no change. Second strategy for defending the compatibility between these claims is by providing some account or way of thinking about how something can both remains in the present and change. If only the present exists, how is that the case that things
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