{"id":7483,"date":"2014-12-30T15:25:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T15:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/12\/30\/aristotle-on-the-new-year\/"},"modified":"2014-12-30T15:25:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T15:25:05","slug":"aristotle-on-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/12\/30\/aristotle-on-the-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Aristotle on the New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed sends his best wishes from London in the form of a quotation from The Philosopher:<\/span><\/p>\n

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"Since the 'now' is an end and a beginning of time, not of the same time however, but the end of that which is past and the beginning of that which is to come<\/strong>, it follows that, as the circle has its convexity and its concavity, in a sense, in the same thing, so time is always at a beginning and at an end". (Physics book IV  222 a28<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The saying of the Stagirite smacks of presentism.  I find presentism puzzling.  See my Presentism Between Scylla and Charybdis<\/a> from almost exactly two years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

Theme music: Simon and Garfunkel, A Hazy Shade of Winter<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Time, time, time, see what's become of me <\/span>
While I looked around <\/span>
For my possibilities <\/span>
I was so hard to please <\/span>
But look around, leaves are brown <\/span>
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed sends his best wishes from London in the form of a quotation from The Philosopher: "Since the 'now' is an end and a beginning of time, not of the same time however, but the end of that which is past and the beginning of that which is to come, it follows that, as the … Continue reading “Aristotle on the New Year”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aristotle","category-time-and-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}