The enigmatic reality of time Aristotle, Plotinus, and today / [electronic resource] :
by Michael F. Wagner.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
- viii, 378 p.
- Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition, v. 7 1871-188X ; .
- Medieval philosophy, mathematics, and science. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; v. 7. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-371) and index.
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.
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