Time for Aristotle

by Ursula Coope

Overview

What is the relation between time and change? Does time depend on the mind? Is the present always the same or is it always different? Aristotle tackles these questions in the Physics. In the first book in English exclusively devoted to this discussion, Ursula Coope argues that Aristotle sees time as a universal order within which all changes are related to each other. This interpretation enables her to explain two striking Aristotelian claims: that the now is like a moving thing, and that time depends for its existence on the mind.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199247905
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	12/22/2005
Series:	Oxford Aristotle Studies Series
Pages:	202
Product dimensions:	8.60(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Birkbeck College, University of London

Table of Contents

Introduction
I. Introductory puzzles and the starting points of inquiry
1. The introductory puzzles
2. Time is not change but something of change
II. Time's dependence on change
3. Time follows change and change follows magnitude
4. The before and after
III. Time as a number and time as a measure
5. The definition of time as a kind of number
6. Time as a measure of change
IV. The sameness and difference of times and nows
7. All simultaneous time is the same
8. The sameness of earlier and later times and nows
V. Two consequences of Aristotle's account of time
9. Being in time
10. Time and the soul
Appendix: the expression ho pote on X esti
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Ursula Coope provides an exemplary model of one kind of interpretative method."—Thomas Kiefer, Ancient Philosophy

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