
The Enigmatic Reality of Time
Aristotle, Plotinus, and Today
Michael Wagner(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 2. October 2008
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-90-04-17025-4 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 168 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
771 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-17025-4 (9789004170254)
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Michael F. Wagner, Ph.D. (1979) in Philosophy, The Ohio State University, is Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Diego. He has published extensively mainly on aspects of Plotinus' Neoplatonism including Neoplatonism and Nature (SUNY, 2002) and in the Cambidge Companion to Plotinus.