Time's causal power : : Proclus on the natural theology of time / / by Antonio Vargas.

• Superior document: Philosophia antiqua ; Volume 158
• VerfasserIn: Vargas, Antonio, 1987-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Philosophia antiqua ; Volume 158.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (239 pages)

"This is the first monograph dedicated entirely to Proclus' theory of time, showing the roots of his obscure claim that time is a god and a cause in his reception of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and Plotinus. Proclus' theory of time appears as a natural theology, a reasoned ascent to...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Scope and Aims of the Book
• Distinctive Characteristics of Proclus' Philosophy of Time
• Structure of the Book
• Chapter 1 Sources of Proclus' Philosophy of Time in Plato
• 1.1 Plato's Timaeus as a Source: The Engineering of Time
• 1.1.1 Time as a Product of the Cosmic Engineer, Intelligence
• 1.1.2 Time as a Product of the World's Paradigm, the Eternal Living Being
• 1.1.3 Time, Soul and the Celestial Bodies between Eternity and Change
• 1.1.4 Time, Eternity and Tense
• 1.2 Plato's Republic as a Source: The Cycles of Time
• Chapter 2 The Aristotelian Element: The Order of Time as Number and as Intelligence
• 2.1 Factors in Proclus' Reception of Aristotle
• 2.2 Aristotle on Time as the Number Counted in Change
• 2.3 Proclus' Absorption of Aristotle's Grounding of Change in the Philosophy of Time
• 2.3.1 Aristotle and Proclus on Time and Unchanging Agents of Change
• 2.3.2 Aristotle and Proclus on Time and Infinitely Powerful Agents of Change
• 2.3.3 Aristotle and Proclus on Time and Intelligence as the Primary Agent of Change
• 2.4 Time as the World's Specific Kind of Intelligence
• Chapter 3 The Stoic Element: A Biology of the World as a Whole
• 3.1 Plato and Aristotle on the Omnipresence of Time's Passage
• 3.2 The Stoic Biology of the Universe and the Unity of Change
• 3.3 The Biology of the World in Plotinus' Theory of Time
• 3.4 Proclus' Biology of the World
• Chapter 4 The Plotinian Element: The Flow of Time as the Life of the World Soul
• 4.1 Platonic Sources and Aristotelian Objections to Time's Uniform Flow
• 4.2 Time's Flow as the Soul's Engineering of the World in Plotinus
• 4.2.1 Eternal Activity, Change Itself and the Engineering of the World in Plotinus
• 4.2.2 Plotinus on Time: Time Is the Activity of Engineering of the World Soul.
• 4.2.3 Two Corollaries: Time Is Not a Measure and the Soul Is Not in Time
• 4.3 Time's Flow as the Contemplative Activity of the World Soul in Proclus
• 4.3.1 Metaphysical Background: Activity and Process in Proclus
• 4.3.2 Time's Flow Is the Contemplative Activity of the World Soul
• 4.3.3 Proclus on Time in the Soul and Time as a Number
• 4.4 A Tension in Proclus' Description of Time's Flow
• Conclusion The Natural Theology of Time in Proclus
• Bibliography
• Texts, Abbreviations and Citation Practices
• Translations
• Modern Scholarship
• Index Locorum
• Name Index
• Subject Index Alphabetical.