Platos Timaeus And The Latin Tradition
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| Author | : Christina Hoenig |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 351 |
| Release | : 2018-08-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108415806 |
The book explores the development of Platonic philosophy by Roman writers between the first century BCE and the early fifth century CE. Discusses the interpretation of Plato's Timaeus by Cicero, Apuleius, Calcidius, and Augustine, and examines how they contributed to the construction of the complex and multifaceted genre of Roman Platonism.
| Author | : Gretchen Reydams-Schils |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 255 |
| Release | : 2020-09-24 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1108356176 |
This is the first study to assess in its entirety the fourth-century Latin commentary on Plato's Timaeus by the otherwise unknown Calcidius, also addressing features of his Latin translation. The first part examines the authorial voice of the commentator and the overall purpose of the work; the second part provides an overview of the key themes; and the third part reassesses the commentary's relation to Stoicism, Aristotle, potential sources, and the Christian tradition. This commentary was one of the main channels through which the legacy of Plato and Greek philosophy was passed on to the Christian Latin West. The text, which also establishes a connection between Plato's cosmology and Genesis, thus represents a distinctive cultural encounter between the Greek and the Roman philosophical traditions, and between non-Christian and Christian currents of thought.
| Author | : Gijsbert Jonkers |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 566 |
| Release | : 2016-11-21 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 900433520X |
In The Textual Tradition of Plato's Timaeus and Critias, Gijsbert Jonkers provides new insights into the extant ancient and medieval evidence for the text of both Platonic dialogues. The discussions are set in the broader context of examinations in recent decades of the textual traditions of other individual Platonic works. Particularly the vast collection of testimonia of the Timaeus, one of Plato's most read, interpreted and discussed dialogues of all times, will be of interest for students of ancient philosophy, science and philology.
| Author | : Calcidius |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 795 |
| Release | : 2016-04-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0674599179 |
In the 4th century CE, Calcidius translated into Latin an important section of Plato’s Timaeus, complemented by commentary and organized into coordinated parts. Its organization subsequently informed the sense of macrocosm and microcosm—of the world and our place in it—which is prevalent in western European thought in the Middle Ages.
| Author | : Gretchen J. Reydams-Schils |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
New forms of transnational mobility and diasporic belonging have become emblematic of a supposed global condition of uprootedness. Yet much recent theorizing of our so-called postmodern life emphasizes movement and fluidity without interrogating who and what is on the move. This book examines the interdependence of mobility and belonging by considering how homes are formed in relationship to movement. It suggests that movement does not only happen when one leaves home, and that homes are not always fixed in a single location. Home and belonging may involve attachment and movement, fixation and loss, and the transgression and enforcement of boundaries.
| Author | : Jaroslav Pelikan |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 166 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Bible |
| ISBN | : 9780472108077 |
An important contribution to early Christian studies
| Author | : Plato |
| Publisher | : 1st World Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 1929 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 1421892944 |
| Author | : Plato |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 219 |
| Release | : 2008-08-28 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0141920491 |
Timaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told by Socrates, it begins with Timaeus’s theoretical exposition of the cosmos and his story describing the creation of the universe, from its very beginning to the coming of man. Timaeus introduces the idea of a creator God and speculates on the structure and composition of the physical world. Critias, the second part of Plato’s dialogue, comprises an account of the rise and fall of Atlantis, an ancient, mighty and prosperous empire ruled by the descendents of Poseidon, which ultimately sank into the sea.
| Author | : Christoph Helmig |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 372 |
| Release | : 2020-01-20 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 3110628600 |
From Plato’s Timaeus onwards, the world or cosmos has been conceived of as a living, rational organism. Most notably in German Idealism, philosophers still talked of a ‘Weltseele’ (Schelling) or ‘Weltgeist’ (Hegel). This volume is the first collection of essays on the origin of the notion of the world soul (anima mundi) in Antiquity and beyond. It contains 14 original contributions by specialists in the field of ancient philosophy, the Platonic tradition and the history of theology. The topics range from the ‘obscure’ Presocratic Heraclitus, to Plato and his ancient readers in Middle and Neoplatonism (including the Stoics), to the reception of the idea of a world soul in the history of natural science. A general introduction highlights the fundamental steps in the development of the Platonic notion throughout late Antiquity and early Christian philosophy. Accessible to Classicists, historians of philosophy, theologians and invaluable to specialists in ancient philosophy, the book provides an overview of the fascinating discussions surrounding a conception that had a long-lasting effect on the history of Western thought.
| Author | : Marije Martijn |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 372 |
| Release | : 2010-03-22 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9004193251 |
Of Proclus’ immense philosophical system, the part concerning the natural world may well be the most fascinating. Traditional scholarship tends to downplay that part of Neoplatonism, in favour of idealism, but recently this attitude is changing. This study contributes to that development by showing how Proclus’ natural philosophy relates to theology, while remaining a science in its own right. Starting from his Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus, it presents a revision of Proclus’ metaphysics of nature and provides new insight into his surprisingly peripatetic philosophy of science, the role of mathematics, and the nature of discourse in natural philosophy. This book will be of interest both to students of the Platonic tradition, and to historians of natural science, metaphysics and epistemology.
