Question

What is History and the Concept of 'Time'.​

Answer 1

Answer:The central feature of our current mode of thought about the physical universe and human society is the idea of time as linear advancement without cyclical repetition. We tend to regard this idea as intuitively obvious and a necessity of thought, but a general survey of the historical evidence reveals that this is not the case.

Explanation:Summary. The central feature of our current mode of thought about the physical universe and

human society is the idea of time as linear advancement without cyclical repetition. We tend

to regard this idea as intuitively obvious and a necessity of thought, but a general survey of

the historical evidence reveals that this is not the case.

The origins of our concept of time are shrouded in mystery, but from our knowledge of ancient civilizations and also of surviving primitive races it is reasonable to assume that the lives of our remote ancestors were far less consciously

dominated by time than are ours. For example, although the children of

Australian aborigines are of similar mental capacity to white children, they

have great difficulty in telling the time by the clock. They can read off the

position of the hands of the clock as a memory exercise but they are quite

unable to relate it to the time of day. There is a cultural gap between their

conception of time and ours which they find difficult to cross. Nevertheless,

all primitive peoples have some idea of time and some method of reckoning,

usually based on astronomical observations. The Australian aborigine will fix

the time for a proposed action by placing a stone in the fork of a tree, or some

such place, so that the Sun will strike it at the agreed time.

Primitive man's sense of rhythm was a vital factor in his intuition of time.

Moreover, before he had any explicit idea of time, he seems to have been aware

of temporal associations dividing time into intervals like bars in music. The

principal transitions in nature were thought to occur suddenly, and similarly

man's journey through life was visualized as a sequence of distinct stages -

later epitomized in Shakespeare's 'Seven ages of man'. Even in so culturally

advanced a civilization as the ancient Chinese different intervals of time were

regarded as separate discrete units, so that time was in effect discontinuous.

Just as space was decomposed into regions, so time was split up into eras,

seasons and epochs. In other words, time was 'boxed'.! Even in medieval Europe

the development of the mechanical clock did not spring from a desire to register

,;. G. J Whitrow, M. A., D. Phil., Department of Mathematics in the University of London

at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, Exhibition Road, London S.W. 7, Great

Britain.

1 Granet, M.: La Pensee Chinoise. Paris: 1934, p. 330; but see also, for some modification

of this view, Needham, J: Time and Eastern Man. Royal Anthropological Institute Occasional

Answer 2

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The concept of time is self evidence. An hour consist of certain number of a minute, a day, a hour and a year of day. Time represented through change. The passing of time is needed

closely connected to the concept of space.

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