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viii, 378 p. |
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Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts |
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Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition, 1871-188X ; v. 7 |
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Medieval philosophy, mathematics, and science.
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Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; v. 7.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-371) and index. |
| 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Aristotle.
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Plotinus.
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Time.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9789004170254 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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9004170251 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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