Time, Creation and the Continuum: Theories in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

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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.

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Name in long format: Time, Creation and the Continuum: Theories in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
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

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