Single Idea 1498

[catalogued under 27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 3. The Beginning]

Full Idea

All thinkers agree that the world had a beginning, but some claim that, having come into existence, it is everlasting.

Gist of Idea

Everyone agrees that the world had a beginning, but thinkers disagree over whether it will end

Source

Aristotle (On the Heavens [c.336 BCE], 279b12)

Book Reference

'The First Philosophers', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP 2000], p.42

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