Abstract:

This study is aimed to philosophical inquiry into the problem of what is time. This question has been examined by philosophers from Ancient ages to the present. Among these philosophers, John Ellis McTaggart’s argument of ‚The Unreality of Time‛ was great importance in course of the examination. For this reason, the center of the study is devoted to examination of McTaggart’s argument, while pre- and post-McTaggart ideas were considered on the other sections. The first part of the study will focus on time thought as far as McTaggart. The second part of the study is devoted to an examination about McTaggart’s ‚The Unreality of Time‛ argument. In the third part of the study, the time theories developed after McTaggart and the discussions of the twentieth-century philosophy of time will be discussed. And the last section contains general considerations of the philosophical history of time and the author’s personal thoughts.

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