Abstract
Taking very seriously its anti-Parmenidean character, this essay locates a radically temporalized ontology at heart of Aristotle's Physics. We first concentrate on Aristotle's discussion of kinesis or'change'as always between opposites, drawing conclusion that archai that govern and constitute a change, as opposites, cannot be present in change itself. Thus, change is what it is by virtue of what is necessarily not present. We then draw implications of this discussion for chronos or 'time,' defined in Book IV of Physics as the number of change. Here, we uncover ecstatic present moment of natural, changing things, a present constituted by its past and future, which is to say by what is emphatically not present.
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