03758nam 2200625 a 450 991077868710332120200520144314.01-282-39981-0978661239981790-474-4360-810.1163/ej.9789004170254.i-378(CKB)1000000000821927(EBL)468497(OCoLC)567744258(SSID)ssj0000337274(PQKBManifestationID)11283199(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000337274(PQKBWorkID)10288854(PQKB)11100085(MiAaPQ)EBC468497(OCoLC)233697373(nllekb)BRILL9789047443605(Au-PeEL)EBL468497(CaPaEBR)ebr10363932(PPN)157225380(EXLCZ)99100000000082192720080630d2008 uy 0engurun| uuuuatxtccrThe enigmatic reality of time[electronic resource] Aristotle, Plotinus, and today /by Michael F. WagnerLeiden ;Boston Brill20081 online resource (386 p.)Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contextsStudies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition,1871-188X ;v. 7Description based upon print version of record.90-04-17025-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-371) and index.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.The nature and existence of time is a fascinating and puzzling feature of human life and awareness. This book integrates interdisciplinary work and approaches from such fields as physics, psychology, biology, phenomenology, and technology studies with philosophical analyses and considerations to explain a number of facets of the perennnial question of time's nature and existence, both in contemporary and in its initial classical Greek context; and it then explores and explains two of the most influential investigations of time in classical Western thought: Aristotle's, as presented in his Physics , and the (neo)Platonist Plotinus' in his treatise On Time and Eternity . Original interpretative perspectives are argued in both cases, and special attention is paid to Plotinus as partly responding to and critiquing Aristotle's account.Medieval philosophy, mathematics, and science.Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ;v. 7.TimeTime.115Wagner Michael F.1952-754112MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778687103321The enigmatic reality of time3791605UNINA