Contents

pp.：  7 – 8

Introduction

pp.：  9 – 24

Part I. Dimensions of Time's Enigma

pp.：  25 – 154

1. Is Time Real?

pp.：  27 – 50

2. Eleaticism, Temporality, and Time

pp.：  51 – 72

3. The Makings of a Temporal Universe

pp.：  73 – 154

3.1. Pastness and Futurity

pp.：  73 – 87

3.2. Synchronicity and Asynchronicity

pp.：  88 – 109

3.3. Temporal Pace and Measurement

pp.：  110 – 128

3.4. Presentness, or the Present

pp.：  129 – 154

Part II. Aristotle's Real Account of Time

pp.：  155 – 280

4. Parmenidean Time and the Impossible Now

pp.：  157 – 174

5. Cosmic Motion and the Speed of Time

pp.：  175 – 196

5.I. Time as the Motion of the Cosmos

pp.：  176 – 185

5.II. Time as the Cosmos Itself

pp.：  186 – 186

5.III.Time as Motion and All Change

pp.：  187 – 196

6. Temporal Cognition and the Return of the Now

pp.：  197 – 220

7. Real Temporality in an Aristotelian World

pp.：  221 – 250

8. Does Aristotle Refute Eleaticism?

pp.：  251 – 280

Bisection Argument I

pp.：  261 – 262

Bisection Argument II

pp.：  263 – 264

Bisection Argument III

pp.：  265 – 280

Part III. Plotinus' Vitalistic Platonism and the Real Origins of Time

pp.：  281 – 372

9. Temporality, Eternality, and Plotinus' New Platonism

pp.：  283 – 296

10. Plotinus' Critique of Aristotelian Motion

pp.：  297 – 320

11. Indefinite Temporality and the Measure of Motion

pp.：  321 – 346

12. Plotinus' Neoplatonic Account of Time

pp.：  347 – 372

Bibliography

pp.：  373 – 380

Index

pp.：  381 – 386