The origins of the philosophy of time. Plato and predecessors

In the monograph, an attempt was made for the first time to reconstruct the philosophy of time at Plato in her connection with early Greek thought. Based on the analysis of the texts of ancient Greek poets, historians, rhetoric, tragic, early Greek philosophers, the history of the formation of images and concepts of time characteristic of ancient Greek culture is traced. A careful study of their genesis becomes the basis for the reconstruction of a holistic philosophy of time in Plato. The author substantiates the insufficiency of the “Eternity - Time” interpretative scheme for the European tradition and transforms it into a three -part diagram "Eternity - Time - Monthly." Eternity characterizes the being of ideas, time is the world of formation. Instruction is the third temporal status characteristic of matter, the lowest beginning of Plato"s metaphysics. The emphasis on historical and primitive analysis, contextualization of the philosophy of time in the previous and modern Plato culture, the abandonment of the highly specialized consideration of the problem - all this distinguishes the monograph from previously published work on this topic.
The book is addressed to students and graduate students of humanitarian faculties, researchers of Plato’s thoughts and metaphysics of time, philosophers and historians of philosophy, as well as everyone who is interested in ancient Greek philosophy and temporal problematic