| Suppose that time really passes: indeed, suppose presentism, on which only the fleeting present is real. |
| One radical answer is presentism, the view that only present objects, events and states exist: past and future do not exist. |
| Thus, it is generally thought that one is free to accept an argument for actualism, say, but to reject a parallel argument for presentism. |
| But donning the robes of the moralist presents problems of its own, notably the problem of Presentism, that is judging historical figures by contemporary moral standards. |
| Three Metaphysics of Time The first view, represented on the left, is the ontologically austere view called presentism, the view that only the present exists. |
| Classical presentism, for instance, wishes to identify existence with present existence or existence now. |
