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Author Thomas, Emily, 1985- author.

Title Absolute time : rifts in early modern British metaphysics / Emily Thomas
Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 236 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover; Absolute Time: Rifts in Early Modern British Metaphysics; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Chronology of Selected Writings; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Existing Literature; Scope; General Theses; Overview; 1: Scene Setting: Time, Philosophy, and Seventeenth-Century Britain; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 A Cook's Tour of the History of Time: From Plato to Descartes; 1.2.1 Antiquity: Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and Augustine; 1.2.2 The long Middle Ages: Averroes to Suárez; 1.2.3 Descartes; 1.3 Time in Early Seventeenth-Century British Philosophy; 1.3.1 British Aristotelianism
1.3.2 British natural philosophy1.3.3 British Platonism; 1.3.4 British materialism; 1.4 The Wider British Seventeenth-Century Scene; 2: Henry More and the Development of Absolute Time; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Sketching More's Life and Works; 2.3 More's Evolving Views on Time and Duration; 2.4 More's Evolving Views on Divine Presence in Space and Time; 2.4.1 More on 'nullibism' and 'holenmerism'; 2.4.2 More's mature asymmetric account of God's presence in space and time; 2.5 The Development of More's Early Views on Time; 2.6 Understanding More's Mature Absolutism
2.7 The Influence of More's Account of Absolute Duration3: A Continental Interlude: Time in van Helmont, Gassendi, and Charleton; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Jan Baptist van Helmont's Platonic Time; 3.3 Pierre Gassendi's Space and Time Absolutism; 3.4 Walter Charleton and the Reality of Time; 4: Space and Time in Isaac Barrow: A Modal Relationist Metaphysic; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Sketching Barrow's Life and Works; 4.3 Barrow's Texts on Space and Time; 4.4 Existing Readings of Barrow on Space and Time; 4.4.1 The first reading: Barrow lacks a deeper metaphysics of space and time
4.4.2 The second reading: identifying space and time with God's attributes4.4.3 The third reading: space and time as unreal containers; 4.5 A New Reading of Barrow on Space and Time; 4.5.1 Barrow as a modal relationist; 4.5.2 Modal relationism in Barrow and Leibniz; 4.5.3 An objection to reading Barrow as a modal relationist; 4.6 Barrow, Newton, and Leibniz; 5: Early British Reactions to Absolutism: 1664 to 1687; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 New Gassendist and Morean Absolutists; 5.3 Emerging Critics of Absolutism; 6: Newton's De Gravitatione on God and his Emanative Effects; 6.1 Introduction
6.2 Sketching Newton's Life and Works6.3 The Existing Scholarship on Newtonian Time and Space; 6.4 A New Causation Reading of De Gravitatione; 6.5 God's Presence in Time and Space; 6.6 After De Gravitatione; 7: Locke as a Steadfast Relationist about Time and Space; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Sketching Locke's Life and Works; 7.3 Locke's 1671-1685 Texts on Time and Space; 7.3.1 Locke's 1671 Draft B; 7.3.2 Locke's 1676-1678 journals; 7.3.3 Locke's 1685 Draft C; 7.4 A Newtonian Interlude: Locke, Newton, and the 1687 Principia; 7.5 Space and Time in Locke's 1690 Essay
Summary What is time? This is one of the most fundamental questions we can ask. Emily Thomas explores how a new theory of time emerged in the seventeenth century. The 'absolute' theory of time held that it is independent of material bodies or human minds, so even if nothing else existed (with the possible exception of God) there would be time
Notes 7.5.1 Reading Locke's 1690 Essay as explicitly neutral
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Time -- Philosophy -- History
Time -- Philosophy -- History -- 17th century
Time -- Philosophy -- History -- 18th century
Metaphysics -- History -- 17th century
Metaphysics -- History -- 18th century
Philosophy -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
Philosophy -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
Philosophy
Metaphysics
Intellectual life
Time
Time -- Philosophy
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056854
Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056855
Subject Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780192535283
0192535285
9780191845727
0191845728