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
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
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