The Timaeus And The Critias
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Timaeus and Critias
Author | : Plato |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2008-08-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780141920498 |
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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.
Plato s Natural Philosophy
Author | : Thomas Kjeller Johansen |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2004-07-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781107320116 |
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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.
Plato Timaeus and Critias RLE Plato
Author | : A E Taylor |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2013-05-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781136234699 |
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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.
The Textual Tradition of Plato s Timaeus and Critias
Author | : Gijsbert Jonkers |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 2016-11-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789004335202 |
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In The Textual Tradition of Plato's Timaeus and Critias, Gijsbert Jonkers presents a new examination of the medieval manuscripts of both Platonic dialogues, an overview of the ancient tradition and a vast collection of ancient testimonia.
The Timaeus and The Critias
Author | : Plato |
Publsiher | : Iap - Information Age Pub. Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2019-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1609425170 |
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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.
Nature and Divinity in Plato s Timaeus
Author | : Sarah Broadie |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2011-11-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781139503440 |
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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 the Atlantis story
Author | : Plato |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Atlantis (Legendary place) |
ISBN | : UOM:39015046375500 |
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Critias
Author | : Plato |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781786940162 |
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Originally published in 1980; Greek text retained from earlier edition, commentary updated, with new English translation and introduction.