Каквоста на времето и каквоста на мигот кај Платон и Аристотел

Abstract

This paper offers an analysis of the adjectives that Plato and Aristotle commonly used in their works to modify the meaning of the notions χρόνος and καιρός. The analysis includes the pronominal adjectives and the participles as verbal adjectives. The results of the research show that the use of the adjectives for both authors is an important linguistic tool for visualization of the concept of time. This is confirmed not only by the frequency of the examples, but also by the fact that part of the phrases with adjectives are found for the first time in Plato's or Aristotle's works. The fact that many of the adjectives modifying the noun χρόνος denote quantity, indicates that quantity is after all the most important quality of time. This is the reason why both Plato and Aristotle relate χρόνος to ἀριθμός.