| Alain Badiou, French philosopher and author, lecturing on the dialectical relationship between eternity and time. Badiou argues that eternity can be created in time, that is, something can be both created ad eternal. In this lecture Badiou opposed this thesis to others concerning the relationship between time and eternity, including that of mysticism (eternity is the same thing as time), religion (eternity and time are two different levels of existence), GWF Hegel (the totality of time is the realization of the Absolute Idea), and Plato (time is an image of eternity). European Graduate School EGS 2010 |
