The enigmatic reality of time : Aristotle, Plotinus, and today / / by Michael F. Wagner.
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 exp...
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| Superior document: | Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts |
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Medieval philosophy, mathematics, and science.
Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; v. 7. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (386 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-371) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1282399810 9786612399817 9047443608 |
| ISSN: | 1871-188X ; |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by Michael F. Wagner. |