Nature and Divinity in Plato's Timaeus - Softcover

Broadie, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107686199 ISBN 13: 9781107686199

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Plato's Timaeus is one of the most influential and challenging works of ancient philosophy to have come down to us. Sarah Broadie's rich and compelling study proposes new interpretations of major elements of the Timaeus, including the separate Demiurge, the cosmic 'beginning', the 'second mixing', the Receptacle and the Atlantis story. Broadie shows how Plato deploys the mythic themes of the Timaeus to convey fundamental philosophical insights and examines the profoundly differing methods of interpretation which have been brought to bear on the work. Her book is for everyone interested in Ancient Greek philosophy, cosmology and mythology, whether classicists, philosophers, historians of ideas or historians of science. It offers new findings to scholars familiar with the material, but it is also a clear and reliable resource for anyone coming to it for the first time.

About this title

Book Description:

Broadie brings Plato's ideas to life, proposing new interpretations of major elements of the Timaeus including the separate Demiurge, the cosmic 'beginning', the 'second mixing', the Receptacle and the Atlantis story. For everyone interested in Ancient Greek philosophy, cosmology and mythology.

About the Author:

Sarah Broadie is Professor of Moral Philosophy and Wardlaw Professor at the University of St Andrews. She is the author of Ethics with Aristotle (1991) and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (2002), and (as Sarah Waterlow) of Passage and Possibility: A Study of Aristotle's Modal Concepts (1984) and Nature, Change, and Agency in Aristotle's Physics: A Philosophical Study (1984).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1107686199
• ISBN 13: 9781107686199
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 316