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Damascius' Philosophy of Time (Paperback): Pantelis Golitsis

Damascius' Philosophy of Time (Paperback)

Pantelis Golitsis

Series: Chronoi

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The late Platonist philosopher Damascius both resumed and rejuvenated the long Greek thinking about time. In distinguishing between different takes on time, by Plato, Aristotle and his Neoplatonist predecessors, Damascius offered novel perspectives on time, which can be seen as anticipating modern and contemporary theories, such as the distinction between the A and B series of McTaggart's analysis and presentism. The greatest merit of his philosophy of time, however, is his deep reflection on what it is for a living being to have its being in becoming3/4 as it happens with us human beings3/4 and how this relates to stillness, temporality and temporalization. Time is interpreted by Damascius not merely as a concomitant of the celestial motions, nor as an abstract entity existing in the human soul, but as a power of ordering, which is active at different levels. Damascius' time comprises the biological and the historical time but is also the time that pertains to the essence and the activity of heaven, in which there is neither past nor future. The present book explores the richness of Damascius' thought by going into the fundamental concepts of his philosophy of time: the indivisible now and the present time, the flowing now and the non-flowing now, the flowing time and the whole of time, in which past, present and future coincide. Damascius fully developed his thoughts about time in his treatise On Time, which is lost. The preserved fragments of this treatise are translated and annotated in an Appendix.

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Imprint: De Gruyter
Country of origin: Germany
Series: Chronoi
Release date: June 2023
First published: 2023
Authors: Pantelis Golitsis
Dimensions: 230 x 155mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback - Paperback (DE)
Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 978-3-11-105318-9
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LSN: 3-11-105318-0
Barcode: 9783111053189

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