Character, plot and thought in Plato's Timaeus and Critias - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Character, plot and thought in Plato's Timaeus and Critias write by Welliver. This book was released on 2016-08-01. Character, plot and thought in Plato's Timaeus and Critias available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Plato's Natural Philosophy
Plato's Natural Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plato's Natural Philosophy write by Thomas Kjeller Johansen. This book was released on 2004-07-01. Plato's Natural Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Nature and Divinity in Plato's Timaeus
Nature and Divinity in Plato's Timaeus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature and Divinity in Plato's Timaeus write by Sarah Broadie. This book was released on 2011-11-10. Nature and Divinity in Plato's Timaeus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Plato: Timaeus and Critias (RLE: Plato)
Plato: Timaeus and Critias (RLE: Plato) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plato: Timaeus and Critias (RLE: Plato) write by A E Taylor. This book was released on 2013-05-07. Plato: Timaeus and Critias (RLE: Plato) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Timaeus and Critias
Timaeus and Critias - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Timaeus and Critias write by Plato. This book was released on 2018-04-03. Timaeus and Critias available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
