The Scale of Time. The Phythagorean Concept of Analogia in the Platonic-Aristotelian Definition of Time [Spanish]

Authors

  • Martín Simesen de Bielke Instituto de modelado e innovación tecnológica (IMIT) Consejo nacional de investigaciones científicas y técnicas (CONICET)

Abstract

This article aims to unpack the query of whether or not there is a historical- phi­losophical basis for the hypothesis of a non-random homonymy between ‘time scale’ and ‘musical scale.’ A deeper look into certain passages of Plato’s dialog Timaios, shows that he first laid the foundation for the concept of time, defined as number, by incorporating the concept of ‘proportion’ or ‘analogy’ (????????), which was developed by the Pythagoreans in the mystical and theoretical frame of the rising principles of tonal harmony. The pythagorean-platonic theory of proportion underlies –as I will try to prove– the aristotelian concept of time, and thus the traditional representation of time as a parameter and scale of movements.

Author Biography

  • Martín Simesen de Bielke, Instituto de modelado e innovación tecnológica (IMIT) Consejo nacional de investigaciones científicas y técnicas (CONICET)

    Doctor en Filosofía egresado de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina). Actualmente se desem­peña como becario posdoctoral en el Instituto de Modelado e Innova­ción Tecnológica (IMIT-CONICET). Sus líneas de investigación son la fe­nomenología, hermenéutica, filoso­fía antigua y teoría de la relatividad.

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Published

2017-06-13

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No. 27 (2017): No. 27 July-december 2017

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