Reason and Necessity : Essays on Plato's "Timaeus"

Reason and Necessity : Essays on Plato's "Timaeus". M. R. Wright

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Author: M. R. Wright
Number of Pages: 191 pages
Published Date: 31 Dec 2000
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
Publication Country: Swansea, United Kingdom
Language: English
Type: eBook
ISBN: 9780715630570
File Name: Reason.and.Necessity.Essays.on.Plato's.Timaeus..pdf
Download Link: Reason and Necessity Essays on Plato's Timaeus
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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 imposed 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 externally-existing perfect model. Here eight new essays, from an international cast of scholars, 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 - and the importance of music and harmonious proportion. Later developments are also treated: Aristotles' theory of generation, the commentary of Proclus and elements of modern evolutionary theory.

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