Absolute Time: Rifts in Early Modern British Metaphysics Emily Thomas

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ISBN-10: 0192535293
ISBN-13: 9780192535290
Author: Emily Thomas

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.

Table of contents:

1. Scene Setting: Time, Philosophy, and Seventeenth-Century Britain

2. Henry More and the Development of Absolute Time

3. A Continental Interlude: Time in van Helmont, Gassendi, and Charleton

4. Space and Time in Isaac Barrow: A Modal Relationist Metaphysic

5. Early British Reactions to Absolutism_ 1664 to 1687

6. Newton’s De Gravitatione on God and his Emanative Effects

7. Locke as a Steadfast Relationist about Time and Space

8. Later British Reactions to Absolutism_ 1690–1704

9. Samuel Clarke’s Evolving Morean Absolutism

10. Last Battles over Absolutism_ 1704 Onwards

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