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The enigmatic reality of time : Aristotle, Plotinus, and today /
Integrates interdisciplinary work with philosophical analyses to explain facets of the perennial question of time's nature and existence, both in its contemporary and its original classical contexts, and it explains the two influential investigations of the topic in classical Western thought: A...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008.
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| Colección: | Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts.
Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; v. 7. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I: Dimensions of time's enigma
- Is time real?
- Eleaticism, temporality, and time
- The makings of a temporal universe
- Pastness and futurity
- Synchronicity and asynchronicity
- Temporal pace and measurement
- Presentness, or the present
- Aristotle's real account of time
- Parmenidean time and the impossible now
- Cosmic motion and the speed of time
- Time as the motion of the cosmos
- Time as the cosmos itself
- Time as motion and all change
- Temporal cognition and the return of the now
- Real temporality in an Aristotelian world
- Does Aristotle refute eleaticism?
- Bisection argument I
- Bisection argument II
- Bisection argument III
- Plotinus' vitalistic Platonism and the real origins of time
- Temporality, eternality, and Plotinus' new Platonism
- Plotinus' critique of Aristotelian motion
- Indefinite temporality and the measure of motion
- Plotinus' neoplatonic account of time.