The enigmatic reality of time Aristotle, Plotinus, and today /

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1. Verfasser: Wagner, Michael F., 1952-
Körperschaft: ebrary, Inc
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Schriftenreihe:Medieval philosophy, mathematics, and science.
Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; v. 7.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.