RE: Thomism: Then & Now
October 15, 2021 at 12:59 am
(This post was last modified: October 15, 2021 at 2:55 am by Belacqua.)
(October 14, 2021 at 12:36 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: Time absolutely is part of causality.
Suppose congress passes a law outlawing your current hairstyle.
The moment the law exists, the hairstyle becomes a crime.
The law and the crime come into being simultaneously.
The law is prior to the crime in the chain of essential causality. Because if you changed to a legal hairstyle, your crime would cease to exist but the law would still exist. But if the law ceased to exist, the crime would also cease to exist.