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‖ nunc stans
[L. nunc now + stans pres. pple. of stāre to stand.]
The eternal timeless ‘now’ presumed, as an attribute of God, to be co-existent with Time.
1651Hobbes Leviathan xlvi. 374 But they will teach us that Eternity is the Standing still of the Present Time, a Nunc-stans (as the Schools call it;) which neither they, nor any else understand. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 645 Nunc-stans, or a Standing Now of Eternity. 1733A. Baxter Enquiry Human Soul viii. 376 The distinction of past and future vanishes with respect to such a Mind; and the expression nunc stans will appear to have propriety. 1854H. L. Mansel Lett. (1873) 119 Augustine, and the Schoolmen after him,..speaking of Eternity as a nunc stans. 1896W. Caldwell Schopenhauer's System viii. 393 In willing the world is at once an eternal process and an eternal stationary thing—a nunc stans—at the same time. 1946J. Laird Philos. Incursions Eng. Lit. vi. 96 On a few occasions..Wordsworth described the specious nunc stans of mystical ecstasy; its apparent arrest of time itself. 1958E. Heller Ironic German vi. 241 Thomas Mann was..well prepared for ‘the mystery of the revolving sphere’ by Schopenhauer's philosophy of the eternal nunc stans which resides at the centre of the illusory motion of Time. 1967P. Merlan in Cambr. Hist. Later Greek & Early Medieval Philos. 100 A supreme god..lives in the aiôn which can also be characterized as a nunc stans. |