The Enigmatic Reality Of Time: Aristotle, Plotinus, And Today (studies In Platonism, Neoplatonism, And The Platonic Tradition)
by Michael F. Wagner /
2008 / English / PDF
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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.
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.