Eternalism

The term eternalism refers to positions that postulate an eternity, that is, a non- misdemeanor or a non- convertible in time, certain objects or structures, which can be related to different depending on the context, including:

• In texts of Indian philosophy on the belief in something permanent, a permanent and causeless creator of all things, or to the independent, lasting and individual identity and consciousness. The Sanskrit term for this is Wyl. rtag pa'i lta ba. There are various kinds of eternalism, within the eleven systems of Indian philosophy eternalism is explained by three hundred and sixty or sixty-two wrong views and summarized in terms of five Tarka.
• In the recent systematic ontology: cf block universe and Vierdimensionalismus.
• In the history of philosophy representations on the assumption of an eternity of the world

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