Editing Eternalism (philosophy of time) (section)

=== Modern period ===
One of the most famous arguments about the nature of time in modern philosophy is presented in ''[[The Unreality of Time]]'' by [[J. M. E. McTaggart]].<ref name=McT>J. M. E. McTaggart, "The Unreality of Time", ''[[Mind (journal)|Mind]]'' 17: 457–73; reprinted in J. M. E. McTaggart, ''The Nature of Existence'', Vol. 2, 1927, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: Book 5, Chapter 33.</ref> It argues that time is an illusion. McTaggart argued that the description of events as existing in absolute time is self-contradictory, because the events have to have properties about being in the past and in the future, which are incompatible with each other. McTaggart viewed this as a contradiction in the concept of time itself, and concluded that reality is non-temporal. He called this concept the [[B-theory of time]].<ref name="SEP-time" />

Dirck Vorenkamp, a professor of religious studies, argued in his paper "B-Series Temporal Order in Dogen's Theory of Time"<ref>Vorenkamp, Dirck (1995). [https://web.archive.org/web/20101206055549/http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/dirck.htm "B-Series Temporal Order in Dogen's Theory of Time"]. ''Philosophy East and West'', Volume 45, Number 3, 1995 July, P.387-408.</ref> that the [[Zen]] Buddhist teacher [[Dōgen]] presented views on time that contained all the main elements of McTaggart's B-series view of time (which denies any objective present), although he noted that some of Dōgen's reasoning also contained A-Series notions, which Vorenkamp argued may indicate some inconsistency in Dōgen's thinking.

Eternalism also encapsulates the theory of world lines, and the concept of linear reality that is - the individual perception of linear time.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schneider |first1=Susan |title=Science Fiction and Philosophy:From Time Travel To SuperIntelligence |date=2016 |publisher=John Wiley&Sons |isbn=9781405149075 |pages=370–384 |edition=2nd}}</ref>