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there more important than the past?

philosophy Doctor responds:

This question me seems naive: so it better to be young than old?

Yet it is less candid as you might think, and there are many cultures where respect for old (soon to be ancestors to whom we will celebrate worship) makes this more desirable than age youth - despised, exploited by all those who are already settled in life.

But is not Doctor Philo "Philo" for nothing: it is a philosophy of time he will seek the answer.

Saint Augustine said: "It is ... clear and clearly nor the future nor the past are not and it is inappropriate to say there are three time, past, present, future, but it would be correct to say there are three time a present about the past, a present about the present, a present about the future . "(1)

It is absurd to ask if the future is more important than the past, since neither one nor the other exist elsewhere in memory and in expectation - that is to say in this. Ask if there is, it is better to represent the future or remembering the past.

- We could therefore say that the discipline is an institution of consciousness that reference should be to assess the party that we can take time. There are times when it is easier to imagine the future, and we assume that the younger generation is suitable. But deep why not continue to make plans, think the future even reached the end of our lives? The immortality of the soul is something else, to this side of life, the project to continue living, to find our loved ones, etc. ... And the brave people who repeat we should plant a tree, even 80 years, say something else? Youth is a state of mind and they say they are not wrong, if we mean by this that it is the representation of the future we should measure it (and not joint flexibility) .

-> That's the miracle potion Doctor Philo: it is yours to choose the answer to your question, but what counts is whether to take advantage. The past does not objectively more important than the future, because both exist in your present. Live know what you think is most important, whether the representation of happiness you'll have tomorrow - or in ten years. Whether or fantasizing about your past, one that just flow or one that goes back to your distant childhood.

- I can hear the evil spirits who will sneer: then will they say, requires you to be a death row inmate who rises to the scaffold is a magician who tells you: "I suggest you to change you as a child just born "you replied," Nothing to do, because without the past is also disheartening that no future "? Huh, that why you reply?

There, Dr. Philo-dry miserably: "I admit he said, I do not know exactly, because, as Augustine says the venerable, time is flowing, ie consciousness report between past and future ( dissension of the soul), and the example of our objector considers time as a stop on the moment - a moment before its final decision, a moment before its implementation movement. "

(1) Saint Augustine - Confessions , Book XI. Article XX - Read here