Abstract

In this chapter, the author presents an account of a very few representative episodes of his war years. Together, they suggest his state of mind upon his arrival in the United States. The chapter then turns to the birth of the integrated study of time and concludes with an assessment of its future. Watching the clash of cultures and the attendant release of primeval emotions stripped of the usual niceties, the author concludes that man is only superficially a reasoning animal. Basically, the man is a desiring, suffering, death-conscious and hence, a time conscious creature. Watching the clash of cultures and the attendant release of primeval emotions stripped of the usual niceties, the author concludes that conclude that man is only superficially a reasoning animal. The conflict between the knowledge of an end of the self and the desire to negate that knowledge is at the very foundation of being human. Keywords:cultures; man; study of time

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