Meditações - Chronos, Chairos, Chaos

If one reflects on the myths that humanity has created to explore the experience of change, the mythological figures of time, Chronos and Chairos, are distinctly different from Chaos, who is the symbol of disordered, incomprehensible and constant change of everything all together. This would seem to suggest that the experience of time has from the very start been an experience of change which, however problematic and anxiety-inducing, is ultimately comprehensible to human beings and susceptible of being controlled and made meaningful. Right from the first experience the idea of ‘time’ would seem to suggest an experience of change which is ordered, capable of meaning, and within which choices can be made. If it were not so, there would be no explanation for the mythological figures, e.g. Chaos, which stand for other forms of change and its resulting uncontrollability and incomprehensibility.

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