Single Idea 1526

[catalogued under 27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / a. Beginning of time]

Full Idea

With a single exception (Plato) everyone agrees about time - that it is not generated. Democritus says time is an obvious example of something not generated.

Gist of Idea

Almost everyone except Plato thinks that time could not have been generated

Source

report of Plato (works [c.375 BCE]) by Aristotle - Physics 251b14

Book Reference

'The First Philosophers', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP 2000], p.175