Time, Creation and the Continuum: Theories in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Sorabji, Richard
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. Richard Sorabji. Originally Published: Ithaca, N.y. : Cornell University Press, 1983. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [425]-449) And Indexes.
Time--History, Time--History--To 1500, Cosmogony--History, Cosmogony--History--To 1500, Continuity--History, Continuity--History--To 1500, Philosophy, Ancient, Philosophy, Medieval, BD638 .S67 2006, 115.093
Name in long format: | Time, Creation and the Continuum: Theories in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages |
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ISBN-10: | 0226768228 |
ISBN-13: | 9780226768229 |
Book pages: | 492 |
Book language: | en |
Edition: | 1 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Publisher: | University Of Chicago Press |
Dimensions: | Height: 9 Inches, Length: 6 Inches, Width: 1.1 Inches |