The enigmatic reality of time Aristotle, Plotinus, and today /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008.
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| Series: | Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition,
v. 7 |
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10363932 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.