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Getting Younger

Getting Younger AbstractI argue that in Plato’s Parmenides 141a6–c4, things in time come to be simultaneously older and younger than themselves because a thing’s past and present selves are both real. As a result, whatever temporal relation is predicated of any of these past and present selves is true of the thing in question. Unlike other interpretations, this reading neither assumes that things in time have to replace their parts, nor that time is circular. I conclude that the passage is committed to a conception of the ongoing present and a rejection of presentism and endurantism in favour of a growing universe theory and perdurantism. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Rhizomata de Gruyter

Getting Younger

Vázquez, Daniel
Rhizomata , Volume 9 (1): 12 – Sep 13, 2021
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de Gruyter
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© 2021 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
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2196-5110
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10.1515/rhiz-2021-0004
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Abstract

AbstractI argue that in Plato’s Parmenides 141a6–c4, things in time come to be simultaneously older and younger than themselves because a thing’s past and present selves are both real. As a result, whatever temporal relation is predicated of any of these past and present selves is true of the thing in question. Unlike other interpretations, this reading neither assumes that things in time have to replace their parts, nor that time is circular. I conclude that the passage is committed to a conception of the ongoing present and a rejection of presentism and endurantism in favour of a growing universe theory and perdurantism.

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Rhizomata – de Gruyter

Published: Sep 13, 2021

Keywords: Plato’s conception of time; temporal relations; philosophy of time; persistence; identity

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