Time, Creation and the Continuum: Theories in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Review of Metaphysics, The › Vol. 63 Nbr. 1, September 2009
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The text remains a study of a series of related themes concerning the theory of time from antiquity to the fourteenth century. In addition to the merits of this book as a general historical survey of ancient and medieval thought on time, it is also most useful as background for current philosophical debates. In general, ancient, and medieval thinkers were far more inclined to raise ontological questions concerning time than are many modern thinkers.
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Time, Creation and the Continuum: Theories in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
SORABJI, Richard. Time, Creation and the Continuum: Theories in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xviii + 473 pp. Paper, $22.50- This is the rerelease in paperback format of Professor Sorabji's original edition ...
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