Time and others types of duration in Plato's cosmology
Keywords:
Time, Myth of the Politicus, Eternity, CosmologyAbstract
This article first describes the four types of duration to which Plato seems to have been committed: eternity, sempiternity, everlastingness and time. A description is offered of the very startling type of entropy characterizing the cosmos of the Myth of the Politicus, in which the universe starts from an initial impulse, eventually returns to that point, and then begins the process all over again, in perpetuity. This view is then shown to be compellingly consonant with contemporary cosmological theory.
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