The enigmatic reality of time
Subtitle: Aristotle, Plotinus, and today
By: by Michael F. Wagner.
Series: Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts -- v. 7
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9789004170254
Subjects: Aristotle; Plotinus; Time
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Dimensions of time's enigma; title: Is time real?; title: Eleaticism, temporality, and time; title: The makings of a temporal universe; title: Pastness and futurity; title: Synchronicity and synchronicity; title: Temporal pace and measurement; title: Presentness or the present; title: Aristotle's real account of time; title: Parmenidean time and the impossible now; title: Cosmic motion and the speed of time; title: Time as the motion of the cosmos; title: Time as the cosmos itself; title: Time as motion and all change; title: Temporal cognition and the return of the now; title: Real temporality in an Aristotelian world; title: Does Aristotle refute eleaticism?; title: Bisection argument I; title: Bisection argument II; title: Bisection argument III; title: Plotinus' vitalistic platonism and the real origins of time; title: Temporality, eternality, and Plotinus' new metaphysic; title: Plotinus' critique of Aristotelian motion; title: Indefinite temporality and the measure of motion; title: Plotinus' neoplatonic account of time.