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TIME AND SOUL - JOHANNES ZACHHUBER KARTONIERT (TB)

Can time exist independently of consciousness? In antiquity this question was often framed as
an enquiry into the relationship of time and soul. Aristotle cautiously suggested that time
could not exist without a soul that is counting it. This proposal was controversially debated
among his commentators. The present book offers an account of this debate beginning from
Aristotle's own statement of the problem in Book IV of the Physics. Subsequent chapters discuss
Aristotle's Peripatetic followers  Boethus of Sidon and Alexander of Aphrodisias  his
Neoplatonic readers  Plotinus and Simplicius  and early Christian authors  Gregory of Nyssa and
Augustine. At the centre of the debate stood the relation between the subjective time in the
soul and the objective time of the cosmos. Both could be seen as united in the world soul as
the seat of subjective time on a cosmic scale. But no solution to the problem was final. No
theory gained general acceptance. The book shows the fascinating variety and plurality of ideas
about time and soul throughout antiquity. Throughout antiquity  the problem of time and soul
remained as intriguing as it proved intractable.

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