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Single Idea 312

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

Full Idea

Time came into being with the heavens, so that they should be dissolved together if ever they are dissolved.

Gist of Idea

Time came into existence with the heavens, so that there will be a time when they can be dissolved

Source

Plato (Timaeus [c.349 BCE], 38c)

Book Ref

Plato: 'Timaeus and Critias', ed/tr. Lee,Desmond [Penguin 1971], p.52

The 5 ideas with the same theme [whether time has a first instant]:

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]