عنوان

Time, creation, and the continuum

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‭ 322963 Rls‬‬

Number

42136

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

eng

Title Proper

Time, creation, and the continuum

Other Title Information

:theories in antiquity and the early Middle Ages

First Statement of Responsibility

/ Richard Sorabji

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Chicago

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

: University of Chicago Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

, 2006.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

‭xviii, 473 p.‬

Text of Note

Originally published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1983.

Text of Note

Bibliography

Text of Note

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.

Time - History - To 1500

Cosmogony - History - To 1500

Continuity - History - To 1500

Philosophy, Ancient

Philosophy, Medieval

زمان - تاریخ - تا ۰۰۵۱

Sorabji, Richard, سهرابجی، ریچارد

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