Categories of space and time in the history of ancient and medieval philosophy

Abstract

The article is devoted to the concepts of categories as  space and time in the philosophy of antiquity and the Middle Ages. Comparing the ideas of thinkers, the author characterizes their proximity. Also, based on the texts of ancient and medieval thinkers, the author compares the concepts of philosophers about the categories of space and time. The article also indicates those positions in ideas about space and time that coincide among ancient and medieval thinkers. The most significant features of these ideas are noted. So, the article determines that time is associated with movement and direction. Time and space are created by God. Time is considered a change of events. Time and eternity are antagonistic. Space is a container is a continuum. Time is in the soul. Space and time are interconnected with the problem of measuring them in equal intervals. God is the Beginning of time and space and exists above them.