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Time And Actual Infinity In Aristotle's Physics, Atanas Georgiev Iliev
Time And Actual Infinity In Aristotle's Physics, Atanas Georgiev Iliev
Classics Undergraduate Senior Theses
This thesis examines the relationship between the existence of infinity and the nature of time as presented in Aristotle’s Physics, arguing that his two theories come into tension at two points. The Introduction sets out the purpose and methodology of the study and offers an overview of the historical reception and influence of Aristotle’s teaching on the infinite. Chapter I outlines this teaching, examining Aristotle’s reasons for categorising instances of the infinite through several dichotomies, most notably the distinction between actual and potential existence, before presenting his arguments for rejecting the existence of an actual infinity. Chapter II turns to …
The Fangs Of Philosophy: Religious Experience As A Persuasive Device, Lukas A. Dunford
The Fangs Of Philosophy: Religious Experience As A Persuasive Device, Lukas A. Dunford
Comparative Literature Undergraduate Senior Theses
The philosophical systems of Plato and Lucretius use the religious experience to compel readers into their distinct philosophical versions of reality. This compulsion is necessary for philosophy. This study’s three philosophical systems reappropriate this experience from the existing structures of religion to violently produce conviction in readers. The religious experience is not window dressing over the arguments of the philosophical systems, but a necessary component that reorients the audience into a new discursive reality. Ultimately, the philosophers we examine will show how the knowledge structure of philosophy becomes able to grip the audience, consuming them into its reality – how …