Plato’s Timaeus contains a powerful and influential myth, of the construction of the universe by a divine craftsman. A god imposes reason on necessity, to bring order from a primeval ‘receptacle’ of disordered matter. There results the ‘child’ that is the cosmos – a copy of an eternally-existing perfect model. Here eight new essays from a distinguished international cast, explore aspects of this challenging work: the principles of the mythical narrative, how the world soul and human body are formed, implications for illness – mental and physical, the importance of music and harmonious proportion. Later developments are also treated: Aristotle’s theory of generation, the commentary of Proclus and elements of modern evolutionary theory.
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语言 英语 ● 格式 PDF ● 网页 191 ● ISBN 9781914535154 ● 编辑 M. R. Wright ● 出版者 The Classical Press of Wales ● 发布时间 2000 ● 下载 3 时 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 7831917 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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