Aristotelian Society Discussion about Time in the Mind Journal (Bernard Bosanquet, Shadworth Hodgson, George Edward Moore)

The publications of the members of the Aristotelian Society in Mind from 1896 to 1899 became one of the reasons for the promotion of the authors of the society to the forefront of philosophical research of British philosophy in the twentieth century. The article shows one of the discussions of the Aristotelian Society between Bernard Bosanquet, Shadworth Hodgson, and George Edward Moore, published in Mind in 1897 on the issue of the reality/unreality of time. For Bosanquet, time is not a way of existence of reality but a way of perceiving it. According to him, this allows us to preserve the universality of truth. Hodgson states that time exists as an essential elements of experience, being common to both consciousness and reality. He introduces a conscious being of an indefinitely great power to show that the idea of reality can only be obtained from experience. For this powerful consciousness, the past and the future would exist as part of the present reality. Moore expresses doubts about the argument of a perfect conscious being. He considers that time has no reality because for this being time would be perceived as the eternal present. This objection is considered in the aspect of the development of Hodgson's ideas in phenomenology.

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