Eternalism

Eternalism

The word eternalism has at least three meanings:

*Eternalism (philosophy of time) is a view according to which the past, present and future are all equally real.

*Eternalism is a position in phenomenology that the world must be seen as static and fixed. This worldview is in opposition to mobilism, which states that the world must be seen as in a constant state of flux. These worldviews are particularly relevant to paradoxology.

*Eternalism/Perpetualism is the common English translation of sasatavada, the doctrine of eternal becoming rejected by Buddhism.

ee also

*Eternity
*Philosophy of space and time
*Eternalism (philosophy of time)
*Presentism (philosophy of time)
*Paradoxology
*Buddhism
*Sasatavada


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