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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2006
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| Ausgabe: | University of Chicago Press paperback ed. |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | Originally published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1983. - Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XVIII, 473 S. Ill. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 0226768228 0-226-76822-8 9780226768229 978-0-226-76822-9 |