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ABSTRACT: THE LINKING THREAD OR TIME IN CULTURES The following text is the conference exposed by the author on the relation between time and life in any of its manifestations, based on questionings that intend to answer the industrialized and post—industrialized contemporary times and the linguist meanings by means of cultural references of Greek thought and Western history. The author places the topic in the complexity of the cultural comprehension of time, making use of examples belonging to natural sciences, especially astrophysics. In regards to Western culture, time is restricted in the quantitative dimension, ignoring the qualitative forms and contents. Each culture and society determines its time by means of its structures. In Western culture the notion of time as past, present and future, a reference to life domination is constituted, making even more dramatic human life in present globalized societies. Time is synchronized in the globalized world, time that has to be well spent in as many things as possible, creating dramatic consequences harmful to human health, especially due to the amount of stress present in Western society
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