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Eternity oxford philosophical concepts OXFORD PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS Christia Mercer, Columbia University Series Editor Published Efficient Causation Memory Edited by Tad Schmaltz Edited by Dmitri Nikulin Sympathy Eternity Edited by Eric Schliesser Edited by Yitzhak Y. Melamed The Faculties Edited by Dominik Perler Forthcoming Health Self-K nowledge Edited by Peter Adamson Edited by Ursula Renz Evil Pleasure Edited by Andrew Chignell Edited by Lisa Shapiro Dignity Consciousness Edited by Remy Debes Edited by Alison Simmons Animals Moral Motivation Edited by G. Fay Edwards Edited by Iakovos Vasiliou and Peter Adamson Space Edited by Andrew Janiak oxford philosophical concepts Eternity A History j Edited by Yitzhak Y. Melamed 1 1 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2016 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of congress cataloging-in-publication data Names: Melamed, Yitzhak Y., 1968– editor. Title: Eternity: a history / edited by Yitzhak Y. Melamed. Description: New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016. | Series: Oxford philosophical concepts series | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2015037326 | ISBN 978–0–19–978186–7 (pbk.: alk. paper) | ISBN 978–0–19–978187–4 (hardcover: alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Infinite. | Eternity. Classification: LCC BD411.E84 2016 | DDC 115—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015037326 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed by Sheridan Books, Inc., United States of America “The idea of eternity being the greatest, the most terrible and most frightening of all those that astonish the mind and strike the imagination, it is necessarily accompanied by a large following of ancillary ideas, which all have a considerable effect upon the mind because of their relation to this great and terrible idea of eternity.” —N icolas Malebranche, Search after Truth 327 (translated by Thomas M. Lennon and Paul J. Olscamp) “When the mid- point of eternity comes, it can be said of God that half of his life passed.” —G . W. Leibniz, De Summa Rerum 9 (translated by G.H.R. Parkinson ) ארבנ ריצי לכ םרטב ךלמ רשא םלוע ןודא” ארקנ ומש ךלמ יזא לכ וצפחב השענ תעל “ארונ ךולמי ודבל לכה תולככ ירחאו —A medieval liturgical poem, commonly attributed to Salomon Ibn-Gabirol For Alfa in eternal love Contents acknowledgments x CONTRIBUTORS xi SERIES EDITOR’S FOREWoRD xv Introduction 1 YITZHAK Y. MELAMED 1 Eternity in Ancient Philosophy 14 JAMES G. WILBERDING Reflection: Eternity and Astrology in the Work of Vettius Valens 56 DORIAN GIESELER GREENBAUM Reflection: Eternity and World- Cycles 64 GODEFROID DE CALLATAŸ Reflection: The Eternality of Language in India 70 ANDREW OLLETT 2 Eternity in Medieval Philosophy 75 PETER ADAMSON Reflection: “Eternalists” and “Materialists” in Islam: A Note on the Dahriyya 117 HINRICH BIESTERFELDT viii Contents Reflection: Eternity and the Trinity 124 CHRISTOPHE ERISMANN 3 Eternity in Early Modern Philosophy 129 YITZHAK Y. MELAMED Reflection: Out of Time: Dante and Eternity 168 AKASH KUMAR Reflection: Perpetuum Mobiles and Eternity 173 MARIUS STAN 4 Eternity in Kant and Post- Kantian European Thought 179 ALISTAIR WELCHMAN Reflection: Eternity in Early German Romanticism 226 JUDITH NORMAN Reflection: Eternity in Hasidism: Time and Presence 231 ARIEL EVAN MAYSE Reflection: On White Eternity in the Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish 239 ABED AZZAM 5 Eternity in Twentieth- Century Analytic Philosophy 245 KRIS MCDANIEL Reflection: Borges on Eternity 277 WILLIAM EGGINTON Reflection: Music and Eternity 283 WALTER FRISCH Reflection: The Kaddish 290 ABRAHAM P. SOCHER Contents ix GLOSSARY 297 BIBLIOGRAPHY 301 INDEX 323
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