This paper explores what could justify some intuitive temporal asymmetries regarding redemption and the distribution of ills and goods throughout an agent's lifespan. After exposing the inadequacies of causal explanations – based on our differential ability to affect the future, but not the past – a metaphysical explanation is outlined in relation to three competing temporal-ontological profiles of agents, and their varying accounts of a being's development. Only one of those conceptions of agents – supported by Presentism, the thesis that everything is present – offers an account justifying the intuitive temporal asymmetries. Finally, consequences are then drawn for the possibility of true redemption.

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现在主义、救赎和道德发展

本文探讨了什么可以证明在代理人的整个生命周期中关于救赎和疾病和货物分配的一些直观的时间不对称是合理的。在揭露了因果解释的不足之处之后——基于我们影响未来而非过去的不同能力——一个形而上学的解释被概述与三个相互竞争的时间本体论的代理人，以及他们对一个存在的发展的不同解释。只有一个代理的概念——得到了当下主义的支持，即一切都在场的论点——提供了一个解释，证明直觉的时间不对称是合理的。最后，然后得出真正救赎的可能性的后果。