Time, Conflict, and Human Values (review)

This is a dense, complicated, and at times illuminating book. J. T. Fraser, founder of the International Society for the Study of Time, has produced a study in which human efforts to escape the ravages of time provide an explanation for all that we accomplish in seeking truth, developing morals, and creating and discovering beauty. Ultimately, each of these endeavors is an attempt to outrun mortality. This is an ambitious undertaking, and Fraser does not entirely acquit himself. But the book is a marvel of erudition, observation, and insight into human affairs and behavior. That alone makes it worth reading--and more than once

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