Nature and Divinity in Plato''s Timaeus

Informationen zum Autor Sarah Broadie is Professor of Moral Philosophy and Wardlaw Professor at the University of St Andrews. She is the author of Ethics with Aristotle (1991) and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (2002), and (as Sarah Waterlow) of Passage and Possibility: A Study of Aristotle's Modal Concepts (1984) and Nature, Change, and Agency in Aristotle's Physics: A Philosophical Study (1984). Brings Plato's ideas to life, proposing new interpretations of major elements including the cosmic 'beginning' and the Atlantis story. "Every stance which the author develops reward its reader. This study is truly a major accomplishment, and it is bound to set the term of the debates about Plato's Timaeus for a long time to come." --Phoenix Broadie brings Plato's ideas to life, proposing new interpretations of major elements of the Timaeus including the separate Demiurge, the cosmic 'beginning', the 'second mixing', the Receptacle and the Atlantis story. For everyone interested in Ancient Greek philosophy, cosmology and mythology. Inhaltsverzeichnis What lies ahead; 1. The separateness of the demiurge; 2. Paradigms and epistemic possibilities; 3. The metaphysics of the paradigm; 4. Immortal intellect under mortal conditions; 5. The Timaeus-Critias Complex; 6. The genesis of the four elements; 7. Divine and natural causation; In conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Broadie, Sarah (University of St Andrews Broadie, Broadie Sarah
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.11.2011
• EAN: 9781107012066
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01206-6
• No. of pages: 316
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Ancient Greece, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, BCE period – Protohistory