مجلة الآداب واللغات
Volume 1, Numéro 2, Pages 01-13
2017-05-30

Ancient And Classical Embryonic Thoughts On The Concept Of Time

Authors : Sayah Khalfa .

Abstract

The earliest contributions to the understanding of the philosophy and concept of time were made thousands years ago in ancient cultures and civilisations. Millennia before the advent of any historical documentation on Earth, Palaeolithic man tried to express the passing of time in his cave paintings. However, the oldest recorded views on the nature of time available to modern scholars seems to date back to ancient Egypt and Egyptian philosophers and thinkers. Among these, Ptah Hotep (c. 2650–2600 BCE), a city administrator and vizier of ancient Egypt, wrote instructional and religious texts referring to the irreversibility of the flow of time

Keywords

philosophy -time - ancient cultures -civilisations