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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1983.Description: xviii, 473 pages : illustration; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0801415934
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 19 115 SOR
LOC classification:
  • BD638 .S67 1983
Summary: 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
Item type: Book
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Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [425]-449.

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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