Plato On Time And The World
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Plato On Time And The World
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Author : Viktor Ilievski
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-08-24
Plato On Time And The World written by Viktor Ilievski and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-24 with Philosophy categories.
This book focuses on two central topics that could help us answer how Plato conceives of the physical world and its relationship to Forms. The first one is the Platonic concept of time. What is it, how is it defined, what is it not, and how does it help us describe the changing realities surrounding us? The second one is Plato’s understanding of the perceptible world. How is it related to Forms, and how exactly does it work? These are central, wide-ranging, and highly contested questions garnering attention in recent Platonic scholarship. This book brings together an international team that aims to offer bold, innovative, and thought-provoking answers to these questions. The nine contributions in this book represent a diverse range of starting points, methodologies, and interpretative traditions whose collective aim is to challenge assumptions about Plato’s philosophy and help the reader rethink and revisit the Platonic corpus with fresh eyes.
Time And Cosmology In Plato And The Platonic Tradition
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-02-14
Time And Cosmology In Plato And The Platonic Tradition written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-14 with Philosophy categories.
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.
Plato S Cosmology And Its Ethical Dimensions
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Author : Gabriela Roxana Carone
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-10-31
Plato S Cosmology And Its Ethical Dimensions written by Gabriela Roxana Carone and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-31 with Philosophy categories.
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.
The Timaeus And The Critias
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Author : Plato
language : en
Publisher: Iap - Information Age Pub. Incorporated
Release Date : 2019-05
The Timaeus And The Critias written by Plato and has been published by Iap - Information Age Pub. Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05 with History categories.
Among all the writings of Plato the Timaeus is the most obscure to the modern reader, and has nevertheless had the greatest influence over the ancient and mediaeval world. The Critias is a fragment and it was designed to be the second part of a trilogy. Timaeus had brought down the origin of the world to the creation of man, and the dawn of history was now to succeed the philosophy of nature. It tells us about Atlantis and Critias returns to this story, professing only to repeat what Solon was told by the priests. The war of which he was about to speak had occurred 9000 years ago. One of the combatants was the city of Athens, the other was the great island of Atlantis.
Time S Causal Power
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Author : Antonio Luis Costa Vargas
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-07-26
Time S Causal Power written by Antonio Luis Costa Vargas and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-26 with Philosophy categories.
In Time’s Causal Power, Antonio Vargas explains how Proclus (412-485 C.E.) developed the unique theory that time is a cause and a god, the world’s first unmoved mover by addressing Aristotle’s criticisms of Plato’s claim that time is a change.
Plato
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Author : Julia Annas
language : en
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Release Date : 2009
Plato written by Julia Annas and has been published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Julia Annas provides an incisive exploration of the many-sided and elusive genius whose wide-ranging, bold, and influential ideas continue to challenge, provoke, and inspire us today"--Page 4 of cover.
New Essays On Plato
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Author : Canadian Association for Publishing in Philosophy
language : en
Publisher: Guelph, Ont. : Produced for the C.A.P.P. by the University of Calgary Press
Release Date : 1983
New Essays On Plato written by Canadian Association for Publishing in Philosophy and has been published by Guelph, Ont. : Produced for the C.A.P.P. by the University of Calgary Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Philosophy categories.
Essays on Timaeus, Parmenides, Philebus, & other dialogues are included here. Plato's theory of justice, his accusation against poetry, the third man argument, & the theory of relations are discussed, along with other topics. Contents: Plato & Pericles on Freedom & Politics. The Craft of Justice. Plato's Greatest Accusation against Poetry. Belief, Knowledge & Learning in Plato's Middle Dialogues. Plato's Timaeus. Mass Terms, Sortal Terms, & Identity through Time in the Phenomenal World. Timaeus 48e-52d & the Third Man Argument. Plato's Parmenides Theory of Relations. Philebus 55c-62a & Revisionism. Knowledge in Philebus 55c-62a: A Response.
Plato S Natural Philosophy
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Author : Thomas Kjeller Johansen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-07-01
Plato S Natural Philosophy written by Thomas Kjeller Johansen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07-01 with Philosophy categories.
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.
Inventing The Universe
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Author : Luc Brisson
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1995-01-01
Inventing The Universe written by Luc Brisson and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
A parallel investigation of both Plato's Timaeusand the contemporary standard Big Bang model of the universe shows that any possible scientific knowledge of the universe is ultimately grounded in irreducible and undemonstrable propositions. These are inventions of the human mind. The scientific knowledge of the universe is entirely composed in a series of axioms and rules of inference underlying a formalized system. There is no logical relationship between the sensible perception of a world of becoming and the formalized system of axioms known as a "scientific explanation." The "irrational gap" between perception and explanation can be appraised historically and identified in three stages: Plato's Timaeus furnishes the first example of a scientific theory dealing with a realm of ideality that cannot be derived from immediate sensible perception; the Big Bang model is constituted on the basis of the purely geometrical notion of symmetry; and in the more recent Algorithmic Theory of Information, the analysis of the purely symbolic language expressing physical reality reveals the level of complexity of any given theory formulated in this language. The result is that the probability of the universe actually conforming with simple mathematics is zero. In a formal system, a theorem contains more information than can be found in the set of axioms of this system, and it remains undecidable. In Aristotle' s language, the theorems that can be proved within a theoretical model are already potentially contained in the system of axioms underlying these theorems.
The Tomb Of The Artisan God
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Author : Serge Margel
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2019-01-22
The Tomb Of The Artisan God written by Serge Margel and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-22 with Philosophy categories.
A far-reaching reinterpretation of Plato’s Timaeus and its engagement with time, eternity, body, and soul that in its original French edition profoundly influenced Derrida 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? Margel’s twinned interrogation centers around Plato’s concept of the demiurge (divine artisan or craftsman): its body, its anthropomorphic attributes, its productive capacities and regulatory functions in the ordering/organization/assembling of the world. He posits that this paradoxical figure is not merely a cosmological metaphor for the living body but also the site of its destruction, dissolution, and disappearance. Torn between the finite and the infinite, being and becoming, the concept of demiurge also poses metaphysical questions about time, time before time, and the end of time. The ontological status of the demiurge’s body, Margel argues, would become increasingly decisive in the history of philosophy, particularly in Christianity and the dogma of incarnation.