Character Plot And Thought In Platos Timaeus And Critias
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Author | : Welliver |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 75 |
Release | : 2016-08-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9004320539 |
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Author | : Thomas Kjeller Johansen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2004-07-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107320119 |
Download Plato's Natural Philosophy Book 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.
Author | : Sarah Broadie |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2011-11-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139503448 |
Download Nature and Divinity in Plato's Timaeus Book 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.
Author | : A E Taylor |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2013-05-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1136234705 |
Download Plato: Timaeus and Critias (RLE: Plato) Book 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.
Author | : Plato |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2018-04-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781515431435 |
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Author | : Plato |
Publisher | : 1st World Publishing |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1929 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1421892944 |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2022-02-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9004504699 |
Download Time and Cosmology in Plato and the Platonic Tradition Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : Plato |
Publisher | : Xist Publishing |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2016-03-17 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1681956985 |
Download Timaeus Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
An excellent summary of Platonic metaphysics. “...both wealth and concord decline as possessions become pursued and honored. And virtue perishes with them as well.” - Timaeus, Plato Plato's explains the An elaborately wrought account of the formation of the universe that concerns the creation of the world by a Demiurge.
Author | : Plato |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2008-08-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0141920491 |
Download Timaeus and Critias Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : Ruby Blondell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2002-06-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139433660 |
Download The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book attempts to bridge the gulf that still exists between 'literary' and 'philosophical' interpreters of Plato by looking at his use of characterization. Characterization is intrinsic to dramatic form and a concern with human character in an ethical sense pervades the dialogues on the discursive level. Form and content are further reciprocally related through Plato's discursive preoccupation with literary characterization. Two opening chapters examine the methodological issues involved in reading Plato 'as drama' and a set of questions surrounding Greek 'character' words (especially ethos), including ancient Greek views about the influence of dramatic character on an audience. The figure of Sokrates qua Platonic 'hero' also receives preliminary discussion. The remaining chapters offer close readings of select dialogues, chosen to show the wide range of ways in which Plato uses his characters, with special emphasis on the kaleidoscopic figure of Sokrates and on Plato's own relationship to his 'dramatic' hero.