ABSTRACT

Temporality questions concern scholars of all persuasions and fields of human endeavor. Few concepts would be as all-involving as the concept of time. The ancients, the moderns and contemporary thinkers all have stakes in the effort to dive deep and unravel time in its dimensions and substance. Specifically, philosophers have a lengthy history of intellectual quest on temporality problematic. Scientists especially in modern and contemporary times have made more explicit inroads into temporality matters culminating in the constructing of theories around the dynamics of time. Philosophers have in the course of history correlated time with eternity. The historicization of time, the logic and metaphysical contradiction of the ontology of temporality dynamics, and the prognostication of the cessation of time have all been themes that needed to be further developed and appreciated in this research. Again, absolute time as a reality of classical physics and the contradiction of this perspective in the contemporary understanding of Einstein’s theory of relativity and allied scientific views, make for deeper exploration of the reality of time. The present effort tended to telescope the ideas of different and diverse schools of thought in one piece with a view to achieving their reconciliation thereof and with a new synthesis and methodological sharp focus on the apprehension of the conception of time as a spatiotemporal reality in need of a new hermeneutics. The method applied is that of historical exposition, critical analysis and synthesis of the diverse concepts. The work finishes off with the attempt at transformation into the co-relational and co-extensive questions of temporality praxiologies