University of Isfahan Metaphysics 2476-3276 14 34 2022 09 23 The meaning and role of category time in Bloch's Philosophy The meaning and role of category time in Bloch's Philosophy 1 21 27100 10.22108/mph.2022.131715.1366 FA SayedHosain Hashemi PhD Candidate of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, Allameh Tabataba`i University, Tehran, Iran Aliasghar Mosleh Full Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, Allameh Tabataba`i University, Tehran, Iran Journal Article 2022 01 01 The category of time is one of the fundamental philosophical conceptions in any system of thought it's explanation forms the universal schema of that philosophical system. Bloch's complex and fantastic metaphysics needs a new theory of time and can't accept the normal conception of time. Thus he, based on a syncretic approach, uses and combines different meanings of time to formulate a multiform schema of time. Our question is: what is the meaning and role of category time in Bloch's philosophy for answering this question we must first know multiple meanings of time. This article shows that time in Bloch's philosophy is not a question of the past, the present, and the future being made up of a sequence of events, which implies a realness of an event, but rather that all three exist as a unified and yet open process of indeterminacy within the dialectic of becoming. The universe and history are not a sequence of events but a total process of event generation and events exist merely as the product of processes. So, this processual metaphysics depends on operator Not-Yet and will make a futuristic utopia that is timeless. This syncretic approach with Bloch's intention for making a cosmological and historical utopia cause his theory of time doesn't have logical coherency and methodical constancy. The category of time is one of the fundamental philosophical conceptions in any system of thought it's explanation forms the universal schema of that philosophical system. Bloch's complex and fantastic metaphysics needs a new theory of time and can't accept the normal conception of time. Thus he, based on a syncretic approach, uses and combines different meanings of time to formulate a multiform schema of time. Our question is: what is the meaning and role of category time in Bloch's philosophy for answering this question we must first know multiple meanings of time. This article shows that time in Bloch's philosophy is not a question of the past, the present, and the future being made up of a sequence of events, which implies a realness of an event, but rather that all three exist as a unified and yet open process of indeterminacy within the dialectic of becoming. The universe and history are not a sequence of events but a total process of event generation and events exist merely as the product of processes. So, this processual metaphysics depends on operator Not-Yet and will make a futuristic utopia that is timeless. This syncretic approach with Bloch's intention for making a cosmological and historical utopia cause his theory of time doesn't have logical coherency and methodical constancy. https://mph.ui.ac.ir/article_27100_95ff5e85830174e6da3a5e84b0d43827.pdf