Plato''s Cosmology and Its Ethical Dimensions

Informationen zum Autor Gabriela Roxana Carone has been affiliated with the University of Buenos Aires, King's College London, the University of Colorado, Boulder, the Princeton University Center for Human Values and the Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies. She has also been a research fellow for CONICET (Argentina), the British Council (UK) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (USA). She is the author of La Noción de dios en el Timeo de Platón (2010) and of numerous articles on ancient philosophy. Klappentext Offers a systematic presentation of Plato's late cosmology, showing connections to his ethics and arguments about the organic structure of the universe. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Demiurgy in the Timaeus; 3. Cosmic God and human reason in the Timaeus; 4. Creating mixtures in the Philebus; 5. Cosmos and human happiness in Philebus; 6. Reversing the myth of the Politicus; 7. Cosmic and human drama in the Politicus; 8. Good and evil in Laws X; 9. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Gabriela Roxana Carone, Gabriela Roxana (University of Colorado Carone, Carone Gabriela Roxana
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2011
• EAN: 9781107657045
• ISBN: 978-1-107-65704-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Cosmology and the universe, History of Western philosophy, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, SCIENCE / Space Science / Cosmology