The enigmatic reality of time [electronic resource] : Aristotle, Plotinus, and today / by Michael F. Wagner.
Material type: TextSeries: Medieval philosophy, mathematics, and science | Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; v. 7.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008Description: viii, 378 pSubject(s): Aristotle | Plotinus | TimeGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 115 LOC classification: BD638 | .W28 2008Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes 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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