Time, Creation and the Continuum: Theories in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

By Richard Sorabji

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
1983
ISBN
9781472598288
Format
PDF
Filesize
21 MB (21708268 bytes)
Pages
\469
Library
bloomsburycollections.com
Time added
2023-06-30 21:39:07

Description

Richard Sorabji here takes time as his central theme, exploring fundamental questions about its nature: Is it real or an aspect of consciousness? Did it begin along with the universe? Can anything escape from it? Does it come in atomic chunks? In addressing these and myriad other issues, Sorabji engages in an illuminating discussion of early thought about time, ranging from Plato and Aristotle to Islamic, Christian, and Jewish medieval thinkers. Sorabji argues that the thought of these often neglected philosophers about the subject is, in many cases, more complete than that of their more recent counterparts.

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