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The enigmatic reality of time : Aristotle, Plotinus, and today / by Michael F. Wagner.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.Description: 378 pISBN:
  • 9789004170254
  • 9004170251
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BD638 W132 E 2008
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.
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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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