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Personal Identity & Time

Time and the Medieval World

Arnold A. Smith II thinks there’s always time to consider eternity.

Everyone speaks of time. Time regulates the day and the year. Time robs us of our youth. Time keeps us pressing onward and prevents us from going back. But what is time? Does time actually exist, or is time just an arbitrary social construct? Why is time relevant to our understanding? These questions became key areas of discussion for intellectuals in the medieval period.

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