John McTaggart 1866 – 1925
John McTaggart (1866 – 1925) was a British philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Continental Philosophy.
John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart was a British metaphysician and the leading defender of absolute idealism in early-twentieth-century Cambridge philosophy. A fellow of Trinity College, where his pupils included Bertrand Russell and G. E. Moore, he produced the two-volume Nature of Existence, which argued that the universe is ultimately a society of persons bound together by love. He is best known today for his short paper The Unreality of Time, which distinguished the A-series and B-series of temporal predicates and argued that any coherent account of temporal change requires both, and yet that no such account is possible.
Key facts
- Nationality
- British
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Continental Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to John McTaggart:
“Time is unreal.”
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Attributed to John McTaggart:
“The A-series and the B-series of temporal predicates cannot both be ultimate.”
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Attributed to John McTaggart:
“Reality is a society of selves bound together by love.”
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Attributed to John McTaggart:
“Philosophy must distinguish appearance from reality.”
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Attributed to John McTaggart:
“Selfhood is the most fundamental feature of reality.”
John McTaggart by topic
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- John McTaggart was born in 1866 and died in 1925.
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- John McTaggart was a British philosopher of the Contemporary era.
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- John McTaggart was associated with Continental Philosophy.
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- John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart was a British metaphysician and the leading defender of absolute idealism in early-twentieth-century Cambridge philosophy.
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