One book, the whole universe [[electronic resource] ] : 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: One book, the whole universe
• ISBN: 1-282-64163-8; 9786612641633; 1-930972-61-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457358703321
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