Time, creation, and the continuum: theories in antiquity and the early Middle Ages
The reality of time -- Is time real? -- Solutions from Diodorus to Augustine -- Iamblichus' solution : static and flowing time -- Aristotle on static and flowing time -- Solutions by the last Athenian Neoplatonists : divisible leaps -- Time and eternity -- Does time require change? -- Time, num...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
2006
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| In: | Year: 2006 |
| Edition: | University of Chicago Press paperback ed. |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Philosophy
/ Space
/ Time
/ History 500 BC-1200
B Philosophy / Time / History 350 BC-1200 B History / Philosophy / Time B Time / Cosmogony / Continuity / Philosophy / History 384 BC-1500 |
| Further subjects: | B
Cosmogony
History To 1500
B Continuity History To 1500 B Time History To 1500 B Time History To 1500 B Philosophy, Ancient B Cosmogony History To 1500 B Philosophy, Medieval B Continuity History To 1500 |
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| Summary: | The reality of time -- Is time real? -- Solutions from Diodorus to Augustine -- Iamblichus' solution : static and flowing time -- Aristotle on static and flowing time -- Solutions by the last Athenian Neoplatonists : divisible leaps -- Time and eternity -- Does time require change? -- Time, number, and consciousness -- Is eternity timelessness? -- Is anything timeless? -- Myths about non-propositional thought -- Mystical experience in Plotinus and Augustine -- Fear of death and endless recurrence -- Time and creation -- Did the universe have a beginning? : the background -- Infinity arguments in favour of a beginning -- Arguments against a beginning -- Timelessness versus changelessness in God -- Plato and Aristotle on the beginning of things -- Creation and cause -- Gregory of Nyssa: the origins of idealism -- The origins of occasionalism -- Principles of causation among Platonists and Christians -- Atoms, time-atoms, and the continuum -- Zeno's paradoxes of motion -- Arguments for atomism -- Types of atomism : early developments -- Atoms and time-atoms after Aristotle -- Atoms and divisible leaps in Islamic thought -- Stopping and starting |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1983. - Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0226768228 |