LEADER 03376nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910962359303321 005 20251117073732.0 010 $a9786612293474 010 $a9781930972483 010 $a1930972482 010 $a9781282293472 010 $a1282293478 035 $a(CKB)2430000000003135 035 $a(OCoLC)806069040 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10299117 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000484674 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12168564 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000484674 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10602839 035 $a(PQKB)10393453 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3384738 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3384738 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10299117 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL229347 035 $a(Perlego)1296517 035 $a(BIP)7445250 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000003135 100 $a20051115d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGod & forms in Plato /$fRichard D. Mohr 205 $aRev. and expanded ed. 210 $aLas Vegas $cParmenides Pub.$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (305 p.) 300 $aRev. ed. of: The Platonic cosmology. 1985. 311 08$a9781930972018 311 08$a1930972016 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [263]-268) and indexes. 330 $aThis book is a collection of dovetailing essays which together interpret and assess the chief arguments and texts which make up Plato's cosmology. Arguments in the Timaeus, Sophist, Statesman, Philebus, and Laws X are analyzed with an eye to problems which affect the wider understanding of Plato's metaphysics, theology, epistemology, psychology, and physics. New interpretations are given to Plato's views on the role and characteristics of his craftsman God, the nature and status of Forms, the nature of time and eternity, the status and nature of space and the phenomenal realm, and the nature of and relations between reason, souls, bodies, and motion. The book is critically sympathetic to the Platonic project, at least to the extent that it argues that many (though not all) features of the Platonic cosmology are more intelligible and coherent than usually supposed by critics. It defends the view that for Plato God makes the world in the way that a carpenter cuts a board to be exactly a yard long - by applying a yard stick to the board and removing the excess wood. independently both of the agent who creates and the world on which he works. These standards are Plato's Forms. Transcendent Forms cannot be excised from the Platonic metaphysics as many modern critics have been trying to do in an attempt to make Plato respectable by today's criteria of philosophical decency. Parts of this work were previously published in 1985 by E. J. Brill (Leiden) under the title The Platonic Cosmology. This new edition includes four published essays by the author as well as one as of yet unpublished essay titled Extensions. 517 3 $aGod and forms in Plato 606 $aCosmology, Ancient 615 0$aCosmology, Ancient. 676 $a113.092 700 $aMohr$b Richard D$0151958 701 $aMohr$b Richard D$0151958 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910962359303321 996 $aGod & forms in Plato$91111761 997 $aUNINA