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Damascius' Philosophy of Time Pantelis Golitsis

Damascius' Philosophy of Time By Pantelis Golitsis

Damascius' Philosophy of Time by Pantelis Golitsis


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Damascius' Philosophy of Time by Pantelis Golitsis

The late Platonist philosopher Damascius both reassumed and rejuvenated the rich and long-established Greek thinking about time. In distinguishing between different perceptions of time, by Plato, Aristotle and his Neoplatonist predecessors, Damascius offered novel perspectives, which can be seen as anticipating modern and contemporary theories of time, such as McTaggarts series 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 becoming as it happens with us human beings 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.

About Pantelis Golitsis

Pantelis Golitsis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

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NPB9783111053189
9783111053189
3111053180
Damascius' Philosophy of Time by Pantelis Golitsis
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De Gruyter
2023-06-19
128
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