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Damascius' Philosophy of Time (Paperback)
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Damascius' Philosophy of Time (Paperback)
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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