Category Archives: Time

Time, Death, and the Meaning of Life

In my last post, I reviewed Sabine Hossenfelder’s Existential Physics: A Scientists Guide To Life’s Biggest Questions. However, I failed to comment on one of its essential passages concerning time, death, and meaning. It involves the block universe or eternalism, the Einsteinian idea that “there is no basis for singling out a present time that separates the past from the future because all times coexist with equal status.”1 Hossenfelder explains what this means with this simple image, Continue reading Time, Death, and the Meaning of Life

Summary of Seneca, “On the Shortness of Life”

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 Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65)

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As they age wise persons often lose interest in the inessential. The Stoic philosopher 
Seneca touched on a similar theme in his piece, On the Shortness of Life:

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Continue reading Summary of Seneca, “On the Shortness of Life”