One book, the whole universe : Plato's Timaeus today

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One book, the whole universe : Plato's Timaeus today

edited by Richard D. Mohr and Barbara M. Sattler

Parmenides, 2010

  • : pbk

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注記

Chiefly derived from papers presented at a conference held Sept. 13-16, 2007 at the University of Illinois (Urbana)

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

収録内容

  • Plato's Timaeus : some resonances in modern physics and cosmology / Anthony J. Leggett
  • Cosmic craftsmanship in Plato and Stoicism / Anthony A. Long
  • Philosopher kings and craftsman-gods / Allan Silverman
  • The place of cosmology in Plato's later dialogues / Charles H. Kahn
  • Maker or father? : the demiurge from Plutarch to Plotinus / Matthias Vorwerk
  • Plato on (just about) everything : some observations on the Timaeus and other dialogues / Thomas M. Robinson
  • Visualizing Platonic space / Donald Zeyl
  • The receptacle and the primary bodies : something from nothing? / Verity Harte
  • The timaeus and the critique of presocratic vortices / Stephen Menn
  • What's the matter? : some neo-Platonist answers / Ian Mueller
  • Derrida's Khôra, or Unnaming the Timaean receptacle / Zina Giannopoulou
  • Should Aristotle have recognized final causes in Plato's Timaeus? / Thomas K. Johansen
  • Aristotle on Plato on weight / Alan Code
  • What makes a myth eikôs? : remarks inspired by Myles Burnyeat's Eikôs mythos / Gábor Betegh
  • The epistemological section (29b-d) of the proem in Timaeus' speech : M. F. Burnyeat on eikôs mythos, and comparison with Xenophanes B34 and B35 / Alexander P.D. Mourelatos
  • A time for learning and for counting : Egyptians, Greeks, and empirical processes in Plato's Timaeus / Barbara M. Sattler
  • Narrative orders in the Timaeus and Critias / Kathryn A. Morgan
  • Timaeus in tinseltown : Atlantis in film / Jon Solomon
  • The Atlantis effect : the lost origins of architecture / Anthony Vidler
  • Plato's Timaeus and the aesthetics of "animate form" / Ann Bergren
  • Time and change in an eternal universe / Sean M. Carroll

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内容説明

The much-anticipated anthology on Plato's Timaeus-Plato's singular dialogue on the creation of the universe, the nature of the physical world, and the place of persons in the cosmos-examining all dimensions of one of the most important books in Western Civilization: its philosophy, cosmology, science, and ethics, its literary aspects and reception. Contributions come from leading scholars in their respective fields, including Sir Anthony Leggett, 2003 Nobel Laureate for Physics. Parts of or earlier versions of these papers were first presented at the Timaeus Conference, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in September of 2007. To this day, Plato's Timaeus grounds the form of ethical and political thinking called Natural Law-the view that there are norms in nature that provide the patterns for our actions and ground the objectivity of human values. Beyond the intellectual content of the dialogue's core, its literary frame is also the source of the myth of Atlantis, giving the West the concept of the "lost world." From Platonic space to Presocratic vortices, from Philosopher-Kings to Craftsman-Gods and from modern physics to the myth of Atlantis, One Book, The Whole Universe presents in one volume the most up-to-date and penetrating scholarship on Plato's Timaeus by some of the greatest minds alive today.

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