Eternity in Ancient Philosophy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23213830 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Wilberding (corresponding author), James G Wilberding |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 14-55 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Eternity (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199781874.003.0002 |
| OpenAlex | W2511802557 |
| ISBN | 9780199781874 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The first chapter, by James Wilberding, studies the emergence of the concept of eternity in ancient Greek philosophy and its close scrutiny in late antiquity. The chapter is divided into four sections. In the brief first section, Wilberding introduces and discusses the vocabulary the ancients used to discuss eternity. Here he pays particular attention to the Greek term aiôn, which by the end of late antiquity comes to refer to eternity but which was originally used to denote "life" with varying connotations. The second section is devoted to Parmenides, who is taken by some to be the first thinker to have articulated some notion of timeless eternity. The third section is devoted to Plato and Aristotle, both of whom grapple with one of the central problems of eternity in antiquity, namely determining how the sensible world, which is changing and in time, can be caused by an eternal principle. The final and longest section is devoted to later Platonic theories of eternity.
Art · Epistemology · Eternity · Late Antiquity · Literature · Scrutiny · Section (typography) · Theology · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Classics · Computer Science · History · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |