One book, the whole universe : Plato's Timaeus today / / edited by Richard D. Mohr and Barbara M. Sattler

• Pubblicazione: Las Vegas, : Parmenides Pub., 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (417 p.)
• Disciplina: 113
• Soggetto topico: Cosmogony, Ancient
• Altri autori: MohrRichard D SattlerBarbara M. <1974->
• Note generali: Proceedings of a conference held Sept. 13-16, 2007 at the University of Illinois (Urbana).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Table of Contents; "Necessity"; Plato's Cosmic Manual: Introduction, Reader's Guide, and Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Plato's Timaeus: Some Resonances in Modern Physics and Cosmology; 2 Cosmic Craftsmanship in Plato and Stoicism; 3 Philosopher-Kings and Craftsman-Gods; 4 The Place of Cosmology in Plato's Later Dialogues; 5 Maker or Father? The Demiurge from Plutarch to Plotinus; 6 Plato on (just about) Everything: Some Observations on the Timaeus and Other Dialogues; 7 Visualizing Platonic Space; 8 The Receptacle and the Primary Bodies: Something from Nothing? ; 9 The Timaeus and the Critique of Presocratic Vortices10 What's the Matter? Some Neo-Platonist Answers; 11 Derrida's Khôra, or Unnaming the Timaean Receptacle*; 12 Should Aristotle Have Recognized Final Causes in Plato's Timaeus?; 13 Aristotle on Plato on Weight; 14 What Makes a Myth eikôs? Remarks Inspired by Myles Burnyeat's 'EIKÔS MYTHOS'; 15 The Epistemological Section (29b-d) of the Proem in Timaeus' Speech: M. F. Burnyeat on eikôs mythos, and Comparison with Xenophanes B34 and B35; 16 A Time for Learning and for Counting: Egyptians, Greeks, and Empirical Processes in Plato's Timaeus ; 17 Narrative Orders in the Timaeus and Critias18 Timaeus in Tinseltown: Atlantis in Film; 19 The Atlantis Effect: The Lost Origins of Architecture; 20 Plato's Timaeus and the Aesthetics of ""Animate Form""; 21 Time and Change in an Eternal Universe; Index Locorum; General Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. Contributors Ann Bergren Gabor Betegh Sean Carroll Alan Code Zina Giannopoulou Verity Harte Thomas Kjeller Johansen Charles H. Kahn Anthony J. Leggett Anthony A. Long Stephen Menn Richard D. Mohr Kathryn A. Morgan Alexander P.D. Mourelatos Ian Mueller Thomas M. Robinson Barbara M. Sattler Allan Silverman Jon Solomon Anthony Vidler Matthias Vorwerk Donald Zeyl
• Titolo autorizzato: One book, the whole universe
• ISBN: 9786612641633; 9781282641631; 1282641638; 9781930972612; 193097261X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910958958303321
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