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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451511103321

Autore

Manchester Peter

Titolo

The Syntax of Time : The Phenomenology of Time in Greek Physics and Speculative Logic from Iamblichus to Anaximander / / Peter Manchester

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2005

ISBN

1-280-86869-4

9786610868698

90-474-0839-X

1-4337-0673-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 p.)

Collana

Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition ; ; 2

Disciplina

115

Soggetti

Philosophy, Ancient

Time - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface and Acknowledgments; Chapter One. Two-Dimensional Time in Husserl and Iamblichus; Chapter Two. Time and the Soul in Plotinus; Chapter Three. Everywhere Now: Physical Time in Aristotle; Chapter Four. Parmenides: Time as the Now; Chapter Five. Heraclitus and the Need for Time; Appendix 1 Physical Lectures on Time by Aristotle: A Minimal Translation; Appendix 2 Fragment 8 of the Poem of Parmenides: Text and Translation; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The fourth century Neoplatonist Iamblichus, interpreting Plotinus on the topic of time, incorporates a 'diagram of time' that bears comparison to the figure of double continuity drawn by Husserl in his studies of time. Using that comparison as a bridge, this book seeks a phenomenological recovery of Greek thought about time. It argues that the feature of motion that the word 'time' designates in Greek differs from what most modern scholarship has assumed, that the very phenomenon of time has been misidentified for centuries. This leads to corrective readings of Plotinus, Aristotle, Parmenides, and Heraclitus, all looking back to the final phrase of the fragment of Anaximander, from which this volume takes its title: "according to the syntax of



time.".