The Syntax of Time : : The Phenomenology of Time in Greek Physics and Speculative Logic from Iamblichus to Anaximander / / Peter Manchester.

• Superior document: Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition ; 2
• VerfasserIn: Manchester, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2005.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition ; 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (189 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The fourth century Neoplatonist Iamblichus, interpreting Plotinus on the topic of time, incorporates a 'diagram of time' that bears comparison to the figure of double continuity drawn by Husserl in his studies of time. Using that comparison as a bridge, this book seeks a phenomenological recovery of Greek thought about time. It argues that the feature of motion that the word 'time' designates in Greek differs from what most modern scholarship has assumed, that the very phenomenon of time has been misidentified for centuries. This leads to corrective readings of Plotinus, Aristotle, Parmenides, and Heraclitus, all looking back to the final phrase of the fragment of Anaximander, from which this volume takes its title: "according to the syntax of time.".

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments; Chapter One. Two-Dimensional Time in Husserl and Iamblichus; Chapter Two. Time and the Soul in Plotinus; Chapter Three. Everywhere Now: Physical Time in Aristotle; Chapter Four. Parmenides: Time as the Now; Chapter Five. Heraclitus and the Need for Time; Appendix 1 Physical Lectures on Time by Aristotle: A Minimal Translation; Appendix 2 Fragment 8 of the Poem of Parmenides: Text and Translation; Bibliography; Index