One of Benedetto Croce's main teachings is 'all history is contemporary history': by this he meant that, however distant in time an event is, it is contemporary because we remember it and think of it to solve an intellectual problem that concerns us now. For example, an entity X, the English civil war, is contemporary to us and exists now when we think of it because of our present need to oppose absolutism in the name of freedom of thought.
If no one thought of the English civil war in the 17th century, it would not exist at all. The present is constantly changing and every new (emerging) thought about the English civil war will change - little or a lot - the content of it. Following this theory, there are no timeless entities. Indeed, one must analyse the characteristics of an entity that can be defined as 'timeless', even in Mac Taggart's specific description of the B-series.
Thursday July 9, 2026 11:00am - 11:55am AEST GCI-273 HYBRID
