| Time, Creation and the Continuum Contributor(s): Sorabji, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0715619039 ISBN-13: 9780715619032 Publisher: Bristol Classical Press OUR PRICE: $44.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Medieval - Philosophy | Metaphysics |
| Dewey: 115 |
| Physical Information: 0.99" H x 6" W x 9" (1.44 lbs) 492 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Sorabji, Richard: - Richard Sorabji is Research Professor of Philosophy at King's College London and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, UK. He is the author of many books, including Necessity, Clause and Blame, Matter, Space and Motion, and Time, Creation and the Continuum, all published by Bloomsbury, and general editor of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series. |