Time's Causal Power : Proclus and the Natural Theology of Time /

Time's Causal Power : Proclus and the Natural Theology of Time /

This is the first monograph dedicated entirely to Proclus' theory of time, showing the roots of his obscure claim that time is a god and a cause in his reception of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and Plotinus. Proclus' theory of time appears as a natural theology, a reasoned ascent to divine...

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Main Author: Vargas, Antonio Luis Costa (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2021.

Series: Philosophia Antiqua ; 158.

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Philosophy, Ancient.

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Call Number: B485

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • 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.