Critical notice “The Elements of Avicenna’s Physics. Greek Sources and Arabic Innovations”

In this critical note I suggest that the Neoplatonic interpretation of time at work in Avicenna’s account of time was basically Plotinus’, with his insistence that it is soul that produces time. I also argue that Themistius, who commented upon Aristotle’s Physics and De Anima often telescoping into Aristotle’s sentences ideas taken from Plotinus, in all likelihood contributed (directly or indirectly) to create Avicenna’s conviction that time as prior to and cause of the countless bits of time in the sublunar world was Aristotle’s own doctrine.