Time's causal power : Proclus and the natural theology of time /

"This is the first monograph dedicated entirely to Proclus' theory of time, showing the roots of his obscure claim that time is a god and a cause in his reception of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and Plotinus. Proclus' theory of time appears as a natural theology, a reasoned ascent to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vargas, Antonio (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Colección:Philosophia antiqua ; v. 158.
Temas:
Proclus, > approximately 410-485.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Scope and Aims of the Book
  • Distinctive Characteristics of Proclus' Philosophy of Time
  • Structure of the Book
  • Chapter 1 Sources of Proclus' Philosophy of Time in Plato
  • 1.1 Plato's Timaeus as a Source: The Engineering of Time
  • 1.1.1 Time as a Product of the Cosmic Engineer, Intelligence
  • 1.1.2 Time as a Product of the World's Paradigm, the Eternal Living Being
  • 1.1.3 Time, Soul and the Celestial Bodies between Eternity and Change
  • 1.1.4 Time, Eternity and Tense
  • 1.2 Plato's Republic as a Source: The Cycles of Time
  • Chapter 2 The Aristotelian Element: The Order of Time as Number and as Intelligence
  • 2.1 Factors in Proclus' Reception of Aristotle
  • 2.2 Aristotle on Time as the Number Counted in Change
  • 2.3 Proclus' Absorption of Aristotle's Grounding of Change in the Philosophy of Time
  • 2.3.1 Aristotle and Proclus on Time and Unchanging Agents of Change
  • 2.3.2 Aristotle and Proclus on Time and Infinitely Powerful Agents of Change
  • 2.3.3 Aristotle and Proclus on Time and Intelligence as the Primary Agent of Change
  • 2.4 Time as the World's Specific Kind of Intelligence
  • Chapter 3 The Stoic Element: A Biology of the World as a Whole
  • 3.1 Plato and Aristotle on the Omnipresence of Time's Passage
  • 3.2 The Stoic Biology of the Universe and the Unity of Change
  • 3.3 The Biology of the World in Plotinus' Theory of Time
  • 3.4 Proclus' Biology of the World
  • Chapter 4 The Plotinian Element: The Flow of Time as the Life of the World Soul
  • 4.1 Platonic Sources and Aristotelian Objections to Time's Uniform Flow
  • 4.2 Time's Flow as the Soul's Engineering of the World in Plotinus
  • 4.2.1 Eternal Activity, Change Itself and the Engineering of the World in Plotinus
  • 4.2.2 Plotinus on Time: Time Is the Activity of Engineering of the World Soul
  • 4.2.3 Two Corollaries: Time Is Not a Measure and the Soul Is Not in Time
  • 4.3 Time's Flow as the Contemplative Activity of the World Soul in Proclus
  • 4.3.1 Metaphysical Background: Activity and Process in Proclus
  • 4.3.2 Time's Flow Is the Contemplative Activity of the World Soul
  • 4.3.3 Proclus on Time in the Soul and Time as a Number
  • 4.4 A Tension in Proclus' Description of Time's Flow
  • Conclusion The Natural Theology of Time in Proclus
  • Bibliography
  • Texts, Abbreviations and Citation Practices
  • Translations
  • Modern Scholarship
  • Index Locorum
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index Alphabetical

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