Nylund Resolving Aristotle's Aporia on Time

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-65010-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 94 Seiten

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This book argues that Aristotle's  on time in the figures both as an  in the subjective sense of a mental state of perplexity and in the objective, textual sense of a contrast between opposing views.

First the book seeks to precisely identify what constitutes Aristotle's  or aporetic contrasts) on time and then to assess them from the viewpoint of Aristotle’s five chapters on time as well as the book of  as a whole. By such a procedure the claims in the  can, on the one hand, be assessed to find out to what extent they should be accepted, rejected or somehow modified and, on the other, how the   function as a means to provoke new thought and insight in regard to the precise nature of Aristotle’s understanding of time.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nylund, Jan H.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Introduction.- 2: Previous Research.- 3: The Concept of .- 4: The  in Physics 217b33–218a30.- 5: Identifying the Aporetic Contrasts. 6: Resolving the Aporetic Contrasts in Context.- 7: Conclusion: From Aporia (?p???a) to Euporia (e?p???a).

Über Autor(innen)

Jan H. Nylund is a researcher at Lund University in Sweden.