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Reason and Necessity: Essays on Plato's Timaeus

Name: Reason and Necessity: Essays on Plato's Timaeus
ISBN: 9780715630570

M. R. Wright

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Plato's Timaeus contains a powerful and influential myth, of the construction of the universe by a divine craftsman. A god imposes reason on necessity, to bring order from a primeval 'receptacle' of disordered matter. There results the 'child' that is the cosmos - a copy of an eternally-existing perfect model. Here eight new essays from a distinguished international cast, explore aspects of this challenging work: the principles of the mythical narrative, how the world soul and human body are formed, implications for illness - mental and physical, the importance of music and harmonious proportion. Later developments are also treated: Aristotle's theory of generation, the commentary of Proclus and elements of modern evolutionary theory.

ISBN : 9780715630570

Année:

2000

Editeur::

Duckworth

Langue:

english

ISBN 10:

0715630571

ISBN 13:

9780715630570

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