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Zusatztext ...elegantly-written...I enthusiastically recommend this book to anyone with an interest in Aristotle, ancient metaphysics, or the philosophy of time... Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung What is the relation between time and change? This book argues that Aristotle sees time as a universal order within which all changes are related to each other. Based on this interpretation, it explains two Aristotelian claims such as: the now is like a moving thing, and that time depends for its existence on the mind. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
