Savater in this chapter mentions three zones in which time is divided; past, present and future. The French moralist Pascal argues that the only zone which we should preoccupy is the present because the only things that can have a direct effect on us are the things that take place in the present. I disagree with Pascal. The past and the future are also really important for us.
Maybe we can’t change what has happened. We can’t recover that time because it has already passed, but we could learn from what we have experienced so we don’t make the same mistakes again. So, maybe the past hasn’t a direct influence on us, but definitely has an indirect one. We could learn many things from our past that could help us know what to do in our present.
The future could also affect our present in an indirect form. For example knowing that tomorrow will be our final philosophy exam. That would affect the decisions we make in our present because we will study hard to prepare for the exam. If there wasn’t an exam in our future, we wouldn’t prepare or study for any exam at all, we would use our time in something completely different.
We can’t change the past, we can’t predict our future, but definitely both of them have an influence on our present.
I definitely agree with Erick’s I really find interesting how in this chapter it is mentioned that the past and the future don’t matter at all. Or maybe not that but they say that there only exists one tense. I think that it is true that there is only tense because we can only be in the present but I think that it does matter the future and the past.
ResponderEliminarHi, erick. I really like the picture of your blog. It really presents the position of the past, present and the future. Also i agree with you that the past and future influence us in a certain way. not directly but yes it affect us and also this helps us to live our present with more knowledge of our past and imagination in the future. Excellent work erick
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