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Author Wagner, Michael F., 1952-

Title The enigmatic reality of time : Aristotle, Plotinus, and today / by Michael F. Wagner
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 378 pages)
Series Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts
Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition, 1871-188X ; v. 7
Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts
Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; v. 7
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
Summary Integrates interdisciplinary work with philosophical analyses to explain facets of the perennial question of time's nature and existence, both in its contemporary and its original classical contexts, and it explains the two influential investigations of the topic in classical Western thought: Aristotle's and Plotinus'
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-371) and index
Notes English
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Subject Aristotle
Plotinus.
SUBJECT Aristotle fast
Plotinus fast
Subject Time.
Time
time.
PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
Time
Form Electronic book
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