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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Main Author: Sorabji, Richard 1934- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2006
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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
Item Description:Originally published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1983. - Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0226768228