The eternity is a supposed state being independent of time and not to have thus neither “beginning”, nor “end”.

Eternity in the current language

By extension of direction, the word is used in the current language to indicate something which appears interminable, as in the expression “This conference lasts an eternity! ”, or a last duration which appears very long, as in the expression “That makes an eternity that I did not see you! ”.

Eternity in philosophy

The eternity is not a time (a space?) very long, nor one duration without terminal. The human reason is insufficient to seize it. The man is unable to apprehend the eternity . The eternity is thus a mystery inintelligible and for this reason continuous to make run much ink as all that is inintelligible. : the less one can say something of judicious of it, the more one writes some.

Is it cyclic? Nietzsche spoke about an eternal return. Eastern philosophies speak about the wheel of the destiny. Is it perpetual restarting? The Christian thought professes to believe in a permanent resurrection, which would be the best means of not degenerating, to renew the hope. A cyclic eternity does not mean that the same thing reproduces unceasingly. It implies on the contrary a dynamism, a change and for this reason the analogy with a wheel which turns (N.B: on which axis? We with Ludwig Wittgenstein point out that so that a door opens, it is necessary that the hinges are fixed) is luminous: on the one hand, the road is never really the same one as one advances and on the other hand, the cycle evolves/moves according to the traversed way (while wearing or improving according to the successful improvements).

A metaphysical idea, a transcendent concept as that of eternity is thus a support in the physical, phenomenal life with the Kantian direction. The eternity has an ethical function . This brilliant idea plays the part of a beacon, of a headlight to sail on sometimes worn water of the daily newspaper.

Eternity in the religion

In the religious language, in any case Christian, it is about one subtraction to the influence of time. For this reason, it has neither beginning nor end, these terms not having even a direction there. It is thus to distinguish from the Immortalité, which has a beginning and not end.

Thomas d' Aquin distinguishes in the Summa Theologica something which is distinct from eternity like immortality, and which it names the aevum , but the concept does not appear about it any more very clearly today. Is it about a space of possible the ? If such is the case, the equivalents in modern physics would be the Espace of Hilbert such as it is used in quantum Mécanique, or the multivers of Hugh Everett.

In certain religions, God is known as eternal since its existence does not have a beginning.

In the Catholic religion, if it is necessary to believe about it of the Doctorss of the Church like Saint Augustin and Thomas d' Aquin, time is a creation of God as well as space, and is related to this last. God is called eternal the Trinité.

Oddly, the General relativity will suggest a similar concept (Big Bang), but under the terms of considerations not having anything theological.

Eternity in art

In the lyric language, the word eternity indicates a future without foreseeable end: the heroes of the Iliade thus estimate to acquire a glory for eternity.

For Renan and in this meaning: “ the man can live without accepting eternity; but it is necessary that one believes in it for him and around him ”. The number of collaborators with Wikipédia testifies some besides…

The realizer states-unien Woody Allen expressed in a facetious way: eternity, it is long. Especially towards the end.

In 1965, Isaac Asimov entitled its novel of Science-fiction treating temporal voyage the end of eternity .

eternity is also the title of the science-fiction novel of Greg Bear which succeeded the novel Éon (of Latin aeon , name given to abstract and eternal entities, of the Greek aiôn : “life, eternity, divine entity”

Quotations

• "Eternity cannot be thought by our spirit, as the being nothing for reciprocal ratios " cannot; (Unknown Author)

• " The human heart cannot be absolutely destroyed with the body, but it remains about it something which is éternel". Sénèque
• "If, like Alexandre, you claim with the eternal life, seeks-there on the pink lips of this charming beauté". Muhammad Fafiz
• "Eternity, it is long, especially towards the fin."

See too

Internal bonds

• Infinite Time

• Immortality

External bonds

• Eternity on the site Imago Mundi

• eternity on Philosophical Bouquet, Christian site
• Words with evils

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