Time's Causal Power

Time's Causal Power

Proclus and the Natural Theology of Time

Vargas, Antonio

Brill

07/2021

232

Dura

Inglês

9789004466678

15 a 20 dias

528

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Acknowledgments



Introduction

?Scope and Aims of the Book

?Distinctive Characteristics of Proclus' Philosophy of Time

?Structure of the Book



1 Sources of Proclus' Philosophy of Time in Plato

?1.1?Plato's Timaeus as a Source: The Engineering of Time

?1.2?Plato's Republic as a Source: The Cycles of Time



2 The Aristotelian Element: The Order of Time as Number and as Intelligence

?2.1?Factors in Proclus' Reception of Aristotle

?2.2?Aristotle on Time as the Number Counted in Change

?2.3?Proclus' Absorption of Aristotle's Grounding of Change in the Philosophy of Time

?2.4?Time as the World's Specific Kind of Intelligence



3 The Stoic Element: A Biology of the World as a Whole

?3.1?Plato and Aristotle on the Omnipresence of Time's Passage

?3.2?The Stoic Biology of the Universe and the Unity of Change

?3.3?The Biology of the World in Plotinus' Theory of Time

?3.4?Proclus' Biology of the World



4 The Plotinian Element: The Flow of Time as the Life of the World Soul

?4.1?Platonic Sources and Aristotelian Objections to Time's Uniform Flow

?4.2?Time's Flow as the Soul's Engineering of the World in Plotinus

?4.3?Time's Flow as the Contemplative Activity of the World Soul in Proclus

?4.4?A Tension in Proclus' Description of Time's Flow



Conclusion: The Natural Theology of Time in Proclus

Bibliography

?Texts, Abbreviations and Citation Practices

?Translations

?Modern Scholarship

Index
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Ancient Metaphysics; Ancient Philosophy; Ancient Philosophy of Time; Chronos; Chronos (god); Kairos; Neoplatonism; Philosophy of Time; Plotinus; Time as a Cause