A Commentary on Plato's Timaeus
Author : Alfred Edward Taylor
Publisher : Oxford [Eng.]: Clarendon Press
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 17,1 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Astronomy, Greek
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Author : Alfred Edward Taylor
Publisher : Oxford [Eng.]: Clarendon Press
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 17,1 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Astronomy, Greek
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Author : Proclus
Publisher :
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 48,5 MB
Release : 1820
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Author : Gretchen Reydams-Schils
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 34,34 MB
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108356176
This is the first study to assess in its entirety the fourth-century Latin commentary on Plato's Timaeus by the otherwise unknown Calcidius, also addressing features of his Latin translation. The first part examines the authorial voice of the commentator and the overall purpose of the work; the second part provides an overview of the key themes; and the third part reassesses the commentary's relation to Stoicism, Aristotle, potential sources, and the Christian tradition. This commentary was one of the main channels through which the legacy of Plato and Greek philosophy was passed on to the Christian Latin West. The text, which also establishes a connection between Plato's cosmology and Genesis, thus represents a distinctive cultural encounter between the Greek and the Roman philosophical traditions, and between non-Christian and Christian currents of thought.
Author : Emilie Kutash
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,5 MB
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1472519817
Proclus' commentary on Plato's "Timaeus" is perhaps the most important surviving Neoplatonic commentary. In it Proclus contemplates nature's mysterious origins and at the same time employs the deductive rigour required to address perennial philosophical questions. Nature, for him, is both divine and mathematically transparent. He renders theories of Time, Eternity, Providence, Evil, Soul and Intellect and constructs an elaborate ontology that includes mathematics and astronomy. He gives ample play to pagan theology too, frequently lapsing into the arcane language of the "Chaldaean Oracles". "Ten Gifts of the Demiurge" is an essential companion to this rich but complex and densely wrought text, providing an analysis of its arguments and showing that it, like the cosmos Proclus reveres, is a living coherent whole. The book provides aides to understanding Proclus' work within the complex background of Neoplatonic philosophy, familiarising the reader with the political context of the Athenian school, analysing Proclus' key terminology, and giving background to the philosophical arguments and ancient sciences upon which Proclus draws.Above all, it helps the reader appreciate the varicoloured light that Proclus sheds on the secrets of nature.
Author : Marsilio Ficino
Publisher : Shepheard-Walwyn
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 33,23 MB
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0856833592
Marsilio Ficino, a leading scholar of the Italian Renaissance who translated all the works of Plato into Latin, examines Plato’s Timaeus, the most widely influential and hotly debated of the Platonic writings. Offering a probable account of the creation and nature of the cosmos, the discussion incorporates such questions as What is the function of arithmetic and geometry in the design of creation? What is the nature of mind, soul, matter, and time? and What is our place in the universe? To his main commentary Ficino adds an appendix, which amplifies and elucidates Plato’s meanings and reveals fascinating details about Ficino himself.
Author : Calcidius
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 795 pages
File Size : 12,5 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0674599179
In the 4th century CE, Calcidius translated into Latin an important section of Plato’s Timaeus, complemented by commentary and organized into coordinated parts. Its organization subsequently informed the sense of macrocosm and microcosm—of the world and our place in it—which is prevalent in western European thought in the Middle Ages.
Author : Proclus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 31,95 MB
Release : 2009-12-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521845960
In the present volume Proclus describes the 'creation' of the soul that animates the entire universe. This is not a literal creation, for Proclus argues that Plato means only to convey the eternal dependence of the World Soul upon higher causes. In his exegesis of Plato's text, Proclus addresses a range of issues in Pythagorean harmonic theory, as well as questions about the way in which the World Soul knows both forms and the visible reality that comprises its body. This part of Proclus' Commentary is particularly responsive to the interpretive tradition that precedes it. As a result, this volume is especially significant for the study of the Platonic tradition from the earliest commentators onwards.
Author : Plato
Publisher : 1st World Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,64 MB
Release : 1929
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ISBN : 1421892944
Author : Serge Margel
Publisher :
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 16,7 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Cosmology, Ancient
ISBN : 9781517906412
The Tomb of the Artisan God provides a radical rereading of Timaeus, Plato’s metaphysical text on time, eternity, and the relationship between soul and body. First published in French in 1995, the original edition of Serge Margel’s book included an extensive introductory essay by Jacques Derrida, who drew on Margel’s insights in developing his own concepts of time, the promise, the world, and khōra. Now available in English with a new preface by Margel, this engagement with Platonic thought proceeds from two questions that span the history of philosophy: What is time? What is the body?
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 2022-02-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004504699
This book assembles an international team of scholars to move forward the study of Plato’s conception of time, to find fresh insights for interpreting his cosmology, and to reimagine the Platonic tradition.