Any philosophers that think time is completely subjective?

I'm currently writing a paper on how time is subjective. So far I only have Augustine as an example, who, from what I understand, does not believe time is completely subjective or objective. Can anyone lead me in the right direction?

I'm currently writing a paper on how time is subjective. So far I only have Augustine as an example, who, from what I understand, does not believe time is completely subjective or objective. Can anyone lead me in the right direction?

Yes! Hegel proves, in my opinion, that time is created by desire and concept, and nothing else. Time is only memory and desire, in the form of concepts, and the actions we take on the spatial present w/ these concepts in mind.

This book is one of the best books in philosophy. I assure you. You don't get the whole thing here. But it's a start.

Man is Time, at least in the way that humans understand it, and Hegel proves this....(Hegel is the great forgotten genius of Western Philosophy....)Introduction to the reading of Hegel - Google Books

I suppose that if Time is subjective, then unless there were people, there would be no Time and everyone would be in a terrible hurry since they wuld have had no time to do anything. So we would have to wait for people to come around before there was Time. But what would be happening in the meanwhile? And would people relax a little when that happened? Does Hegel have anything to say about this dialectical crisis?

If humans did not exist, things like the natural decomposition of plantlife, would not occur. The world, as we know it, would be at a standstill.

How you don't know this stuff, I haven't a clue.

Are there not many different kinds of time?

A ancient farmer understood the seasons in relation to his planting or the day to the sun rising and setting. In Rome, time was measured by the divisions of military watches.

With the general use of watches, time became more measurable, and train-tables and punch-clocks became available as well as more accurate sea-navigation. Refinements and further segregation of time periods into ever smaller amounts were made possible and necessary by science; races are won by tenths of a second. Think of all the rules regarding time in a football game.

With humans, time is seen as the past, present, and most importantly the future into which projects and hopes can the thrown. A man glances at his watch as he hurries to meet his date at 6:30, or to get to work at precisely 8 am (think of the different rules of "give and take" regarding being "on time" in the two cases).

Yes. The philosopher, Henri Bergson, distinguished between duration and time. The former is subjective. That is why having a tooth drilled seems to take such a long time, when it is actually only a few minutes.

Yes, how we perceive time, and time, are different. How could someone confuse the two?

I suppose that if Time is subjective, then unless there were people, there would be no Time and everyone would be in a terrible hurry since they wuld have had no time to do anything. So we would have to wait for people to come around before there was Time. But what would be happening in the meanwhile? And would people relax a little when that happened? Does Hegel have anything to say about this dialectical crisis?

If there is no process or no change there is no time. If there is any change, then there must be time.

Yes, how we perceive time, and time, are different. How could someone confuse the two?

. What is time except for our concept of it? Where is time? ?

Yes, how we perceive time, and time, are different. How could someone confuse the two?

I see what you are saying. But this is why Hegel is profound. He thought hard on the issue. What is time except for our concept of it? Where is time? Could you explain time to a person with no memory?

I think Huw Price is one. Anyway, have a look around here: People with online papers in philosophy

All that means is that time does not exist, but only the concept of time exists. Why does anyone think that is true?

What is this Time with capital T? Is it anything like, say, time? Just asking. There is a tendency in philosophy for people to write certain words with a capital beginning letter as if it somehow acquired a profound meaning by that act.

Things were still going on before any lifeforms were around which could even hold concepts. Isn't that true? I mean how did we even evolve to have brains and minds which could know concepts, if not for time? It took time, for us to evolve to have brains, didn't it?

Well, are you going to read the books, if I point you to them? Hegel especially showed that Man as conceptual system was time, that time as humans experience it is a byproduct of conceptualization. Not practical, so you might not care. But quite logical. Pure mathematics, to be metaphorical.

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No. We would not make appointments unless there was such a thing as time. I just wanted to point out that to say that time is only a concept is to imply that there is no time; not that there is time but that time is a concept.

The usual thing is going on. First, the concept of X is confused with X, with the false implication that since the concept of X exists, X itself exits. Which compounds the confusion. You cannot have it both ways first saying that time does not exist but only the concept of time exists, and then saying that time exists after all, but that time is subjective. If only the concept of time exists, then time does not exist whether it is subjective or objective. It is a fallacy to argue that since since only the concept of time exists, and the concept of time is subjective, that time is subjective. Which seems to be the prevailing argument. From what you write, Hegel commits exactly this fallacy.