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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 Ref
'The First Philosophers', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP 2000], p.175
22918 | What could have triggered the beginning [of time and being]? [Parmenides] |
312 | Time came into existence with the heavens, so that there will be a time when they can be dissolved [Plato] |
1526 | Almost everyone except Plato thinks that time could not have been generated [Plato, by Aristotle] |
617 | It is hard to see how either time or movement could come into existence or be destroyed [Aristotle] |
22925 | The present is the past/future boundary, so the first moment of time was not present [Le Poidevin] |