Verkkoa history of the concept of eternity in western thought is a brilliantly original idea, and carlos eire makes complex ideas easily accessible. Verkkothis book aims at providing a history of the philosophy of eternity—from parmenides to contemporary metaphysics—surrounded by a series. Verkkotracing the idea from ancient times to the present, eire examines the rise and fall of five different conceptions of eternity, exploring how they developed and how they have. Modernity seemed to be the autumn of eternity. Verkkotheories of time intersect crucially with theories of divine eternity and with cosmogony. This is also the case with eschatology, in particular with physical eschatology. Development of the foundation of medicine, the idea of doing good and avoiding.
