Name: Absolute Time: Rifts in Early Modern British Metaphysics (en Inglés)
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Author: Emily Thomas
ISBN: 9780198807933

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Absolute Time: Rifts in Early Modern British Metaphysics (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Oxford University Press

Autor

Emily Thomas

Categoría

Política y Ciencias Sociales

Año

2018

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

256

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780198807933

Absolute Time: Rifts in Early Modern British Metaphysics (en Inglés)

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What is time? This is one of the most fundamental questions we can ask. Traditionally, the answer was that time is a product of the human mind, or of the motion of celestial bodies. In the mid-seventeenth century, a new kind of answer emerged: time or eternal duration is 'absolute', in the sense that it is independent of human minds and material bodies. Emily Thomas explores the development of absolute time or eternal duration during one of Britain's richest and most creative metaphysical periods, from the 1640s to the 1730s. She introduces an interconnected set of main characters - Henry More, Walter Charleton, Isaac Barrow, Isaac Newton, John Locke, Samuel Clarke, and John Jackson - alongside a large and varied supporting cast, whose metaphysical views are all read in their historical context and given a place in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century development of thought about time. In addition to interpreting the metaphysics of these thinkers, Absolute Time advances two general, developmental theses. First, the complexity of positions on time (and space) defended in early modern thought is hugely under-appreciated. Second, distinct kinds of absolutism emerged in British philosophy, helping us to understand why some absolutists considered time to be barely real, whilst others identified it with the most real being of all: God.