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Author | : A E Taylor |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2013-05-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1136234705 |
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Plato’s Timaeus was his only cosmological dialogue and for almost thirteen hundred years it provided the basis in the West for educated people’s general view of the natural world. The author provides a translation of this important work, together with the Critias – the source of the legendary tale of Atlantis. He has taken particular care to provide an accurate rendering of Plato’s words and to avoid putting his own or any other interpretation on the works.
Author | : Taylor |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2000 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Thomas Kjeller Johansen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2004-07-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107320119 |
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Plato's dialogue the Timaeus-Critias presents two connected accounts, that of the story of Atlantis and its defeat by ancient Athens and that of the creation of the cosmos by a divine craftsman. This book offers a unified reading of the dialogue. It tackles a wide range of interpretative and philosophical issues. Topics discussed include the function of the famous Atlantis story, the notion of cosmology as 'myth' and as 'likely', and the role of God in Platonic cosmology. Other areas commented upon are Plato's concepts of 'necessity' and 'teleology', the nature of the 'receptacle', the relationship between the soul and the body, the use of perception in cosmology, and the work's peculiar monologue form. The unifying theme is teleology: Plato's attempt to show the cosmos to be organised for the good. A central lesson which emerges is that the Timaeus is closer to Aristotle's physics than previously thought.
Author | : Sarah Broadie |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2011-11-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139503448 |
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Plato's Timaeus is one of the most influential and challenging works of ancient philosophy to have come down to us. Sarah Broadie's rich and compelling study proposes new interpretations of major elements of the Timaeus, including the separate Demiurge, the cosmic 'beginning', the 'second mixing', the Receptacle and the Atlantis story. Broadie shows how Plato deploys the mythic themes of the Timaeus to convey fundamental philosophical insights and examines the profoundly differing methods of interpretation which have been brought to bear on the work. Her book is for everyone interested in Ancient Greek philosophy, cosmology and mythology, whether classicists, philosophers, historians of ideas or historians of science. It offers new findings to scholars familiar with the material, but it is also a clear and reliable resource for anyone coming to it for the first time.
Author | : Plato |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2008-08-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0141920491 |
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Timaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told by Socrates, it begins with Timaeus’s theoretical exposition of the cosmos and his story describing the creation of the universe, from its very beginning to the coming of man. Timaeus introduces the idea of a creator God and speculates on the structure and composition of the physical world. Critias, the second part of Plato’s dialogue, comprises an account of the rise and fall of Atlantis, an ancient, mighty and prosperous empire ruled by the descendents of Poseidon, which ultimately sank into the sea.
Author | : Plato |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2022-05-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Timaeus is a dialogue by the Greek philosopher Plato. Our main character Timaeus of Locri delivers a monologue that speculates on the nature of the physical world and human beings.
Author | : Christina Hoenig |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2018-08-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108415806 |
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The book explores the development of Platonic philosophy by Roman writers between the first century BCE and the early fifth century CE. Discusses the interpretation of Plato's Timaeus by Cicero, Apuleius, Calcidius, and Augustine, and examines how they contributed to the construction of the complex and multifaceted genre of Roman Platonism.
Author | : Plato |
Publisher | : 1st World Publishing |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1929 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1421892944 |
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Author | : Plato |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780415591942 |
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Author | : Plato |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780140442618 |
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Taking the form of dialogues between Socrates, Timaeus, Critias and Hermocrates, these two works are among Plato's final writings. In Timaeus, he gives a thorough account of the world in which we live, describing a cosmos composed of four elements - earth, air, fire and water - which combine to give existence to all things. An exploration of the origins of the universe, life and humanity, which outlines not just physical laws but also metaphysical and religious principles, it remained a paradigm of science for two thousand years. The mysterious preamble to Timaeus contains the first account in literature of Atlantis, while the fragmentary Critias, unfinished by its author, provides a spellbinding description of the lost continent's ideal society, which Critias asserts was created by the god-like children of Poseidon himself.