Agenda 2024
Auditorium
Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone
Sala Santa Cecilia
14:00 – 15:00 registration
15:00 – 17:00 first session
17:00- 18:00 break
18:00- 20:00 second session
Concept “Time”
There are many ways to define and perceive time. There are individual sensitivities, collective perceptions, scientific explanations, and multiple meanings that humanity has always attributed to time, either to attenuate or justify its own responsibilities and actions. In this reflection, time also becomes a relative instrument, contrasting with its precise, scientific measurability, as it is observable from various perspectives.
In Greek philosophy, time is defined as Chronos, which is chronological and sequential, and where the past is duty-bound to presuppose the future. Time is also known as Kairos, “a time in the middle,” the moment within an indeterminate period in which “something” special happens, and even though the moment lasts a fraction of a second in our perception, that second is worth living. And then there is Aion, or “vital force,” “duration,” “eternity”; an unlimited time that never stops, sweeping over everything, transforming and recreating. This is transcendent and absolute time, opposed to Chronos. And finally, time is Eniautos, which is cyclical, fixed, and indefinite; the time that reminds us of the passing of our age along with the 12 months of the year, against any false perception of it.
Agenda 2024
Auditorium
Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone
Sala Santa Cecilia
14:00 – 15:00 registration
15:00 – 17:00 first session
17:00- 18:00 break
18:00- 20:00 second session
Concept “Time”
There are many ways to define and perceive time. There are individual sensitivities, collective perceptions, scientific explanations, and multiple meanings that humanity has always attributed to time, either to attenuate or justify its own responsibilities and actions. In this reflection, time also becomes a relative instrument, contrasting with its precise, scientific measurability, as it is observable from various perspectives.
In Greek philosophy, time is defined as Chronos, which is chronological and sequential, and where the past is duty-bound to presuppose the future. Time is also known as Kairos, “a time in the middle,” the moment within an indeterminate period in which “something” special happens, and even though the moment lasts a fraction of a second in our perception, that second is worth living. And then there is Aion, or “vital force,” “duration,” “eternity”; an unlimited time that never stops, sweeping over everything, transforming and recreating. This is transcendent and absolute time, opposed to Chronos. And finally, time is Eniautos, which is cyclical, fixed, and indefinite; the time that reminds us of the passing of our age along with the 12 months of the year, against any false perception of it.
Agenda 2024
Auditorium
Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone
Sala Santa Cecilia
14:00 – 15:00 registration
15:00 – 17:00 first session
17:00- 18:00 break
18:00- 20:00 second session
Concept “Time”
There are many ways to define and perceive time. There are individual sensitivities, collective perceptions, scientific explanations, and multiple meanings that humanity has always attributed to time, either to attenuate or justify its own responsibilities and actions. In this reflection, time also becomes a relative instrument, contrasting with its precise, scientific measurability, as it is observable from various perspectives.
In Greek philosophy, time is defined as Chronos, which is chronological and sequential, and where the past is duty-bound to presuppose the future. Time is also known as Kairos, “a time in the middle,” the moment within an indeterminate period in which “something” special happens, and even though the moment lasts a fraction of a second in our perception, that second is worth living. And then there is Aion, or “vital force,” “duration,” “eternity”; an unlimited time that never stops, sweeping over everything, transforming and recreating. This is transcendent and absolute time, opposed to Chronos. And finally, time is Eniautos, which is cyclical, fixed, and indefinite; the time that reminds us of the passing of our age along with the 12 months of the year, against any false perception of it.
