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This collection of original essay together philosophers, classicists, physicists, and architects to reveal the meaning and assess the impact of one of the most profound and influential works of western letters—Plato's Timaeus, a work which comes as close as any to giving a comprehensive account of life, the universe and everything, and does so in a startlingly narrow compass.
The Timaeus gives an account of the nature of god and creation, a theory of knowledge, a taxonomy of the soul and perception, and an account of the objects that gods and souls might know or encounter, call them collectively, in John Wesley's phrase, the furniture of the universe. We are given accounts of the basic constituents of material objects, of how material objects compound into large scale, even cosmic structures, of time and space. There are elaborate accounts of both physical processes and life processes, the nature of making, morality, sickness and health. We have then, in a single book the length of a modest novella, a comprehensive theology, metaphysics, physics, epistemology, and psychology with significant excursions into logic, biology, astronomy, medicine, and ethics. This book brings us up to date on and establishes the paradigm for the study of these subjects from the ancient world with enduring interest for the present.
The Timaeus gives an account of the nature of god and creation, a theory of knowledge, a taxonomy of the soul and perception, and an account of the objects that gods and souls might know or encounter, call them collectively, in John Wesley's phrase, the furniture of the universe. We are given accounts of the basic constituents of material objects, of how material objects compound into large scale, even cosmic structures, of time and space. There are elaborate accounts of both physical processes and life processes, the nature of making, morality, sickness and health. We have then, in a single book the length of a modest novella, a comprehensive theology, metaphysics, physics, epistemology, and psychology with significant excursions into logic, biology, astronomy, medicine, and ethics. This book brings us up to date on and establishes the paradigm for the study of these subjects from the ancient world with enduring interest for the present.
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Richard D. Mohr is Professor of Philosophy and of the Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Platonic Cosmology of and God and Forms in Plato, and of five books on social philosophy and the arts, including A More Perfect Union; Pottery, Politics, Art: George Ohr and the Brothers Kirkpatrick; and The Long Arc of Justice: Lesbian and Gay Marriage, Equality and Rights.
Barbara M. Saltier is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. She and Richard D. Mohr conceived and organized the international, interdisciplinary conference "Life, the Universe, Everything and More: Plato's Timaeus Today," whose participants are the contributors to this volume.
Barbara M. Saltier is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. She and Richard D. Mohr conceived and organized the international, interdisciplinary conference "Life, the Universe, Everything and More: Plato's Timaeus Today," whose participants are the contributors to this volume.
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