Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 32,13 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.
Author : Gabriela Roxana Carone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 24,38 MB
Release : 2005-10-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107320739
Although a great deal has been written on Plato's ethics, his cosmology has not received so much attention in recent times and its importance for his ethical thought has remained underexplored. By offering accounts of Timaeus, Philebus, Politicus and Laws X, the book reveals a strongly symbiotic relation between the cosmic and human sphere. It is argued that in his late period Plato presents a picture of an organic universe, endowed with structure and intrinsic value, which both urges our respect and calls for our responsible intervention. Humans are thus seen as citizens of a university that can provide a context for their flourishing even in the absence of good political institutions. The book sheds light on many intricate metaphysical issues in late Plato and brings out the close connections between his cosmology and the development of his ethics.
Author : Richard D. Mohr
Publisher : Parmenides Publishing
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,63 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
"The most wide ranging and stimulating presentation of ancient and modern views on Plato's cosmological dialogue ever published. Highly recommended." David T. Runia, University of Melbourne --
Author : Christina Hoenig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 2018-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1108415806
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
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 15,55 MB
Release : 1929
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ISBN : 1421892944
Author : Richard D. Mohr
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 26,94 MB
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004320644
Author : Donna M. Altimari Adler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 49,70 MB
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 900438992X
In Plato's Timaeus and the Missing Fourth Guest, Donna M. Altimari Adler proposes a new Timaeus scale structure. She finds the harmonic cosmos, mathematically, at 35 A-36 D, regarding the text as a number generator. Plato's primary number sequence, she argues, yields a matrix defining a sophisticated harmony of the spheres. She stresses the Decad as the pattern governing both human perception and the generation of all things, in the Timaeus, including the World Soul and musical scale symbolizing it. She precisely identifies Plato's "fabric" and its locus of severance and solves other thorny problems of textual interpretation.
Author : Platón
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,43 MB
Release : 1937
Category :
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Author : Dominic J. O'Meara
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 11,86 MB
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1107183278
This book relates Plato's cosmology to his political philosophy by means of new interpretations of his Timaeus, Statesman, and Laws.
Author : Gretchen Reydams-Schils
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 24,31 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.
