TY - BOOK AU - Wagner,Michael F. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - The enigmatic reality of time: Aristotle, Plotinus, and today T2 - Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts AV - BD638 .W28 2008eb U1 - 115 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Aristotle. KW - Plotinus. KW - Time KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-371) and index; Part I: Dimensions of time's enigma -- Is time real? -- Eleaticism, temporality, and time -- The makings of a temporal universe -- Pastness and futurity -- Synchronicity and asynchronicity -- Temporal pace and measurement -- Presentness, or the present -- Aristotle's real account of time -- Parmenidean time and the impossible now -- Cosmic motion and the speed of time -- Time as the motion of the cosmos -- Time as the cosmos itself -- Time as motion and all change -- Temporal cognition and the return of the now -- Real temporality in an Aristotelian world -- Does Aristotle refute eleaticism? -- Bisection argument I -- Bisection argument II -- Bisection argument III -- Plotinus' vitalistic Platonism and the real origins of time -- Temporality, eternality, and Plotinus' new Platonism -- Plotinus' critique of Aristotelian motion -- Indefinite temporality and the measure of motion -- Plotinus' neoplatonic account of time; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10363932 ER -