Research Catalog

Title

Time, creation, and the continuum : theories in antiquity and the early Middle Ages / Richard Sorabji.

Author

Sorabji, Richard.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

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Details

Description

xviii, 473 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Time > History > To 1500
• Cosmogony > History > To 1500
• Continuity > History > To 1500
• Philosophy, Ancient
• Philosophy, Medieval

Note

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-449) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 0226768228 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780226768229 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• ^^2006015677
• 9780226768229

OCLC

• 68965676
• SCSB-12575964

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library