Title | What's the Matter? Some Neo-Platonist Answers |
Type | Book Section |
Language | English |
Date | 2010 |
Published in | One Book, The Whole Universe: Plato’s Timaeus Today |
Pages | 151-163 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Mueller, Ian |
Editor(s) | Mohr, Richard D. , Sattler, Barbara M. |
Translator(s) |
In this essay I want to say a very few things about Neo-Platonist interpretations of the T im aeus relating to the receptacle and the geometric characterization of earth, water, air, and fire. The starting point of my reflections was translating Simplicius’ commentary on books 3 and 4 of Aristotle’s On th e H eavens, and much of what I say is based upon that. But I will also be invoking a passage from his commentary on Aristotle’s Physics and some material in John Philoponus and Proclus. I begin with some remarks about Simplicius’ basic conception of what we call Aristotle’s criticisms of Plato. [p. 151] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/kdy176eZYVE5loi |
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Title | One Book, The Whole Universe: Plato’s Timaeus Today |
Type | Edited Book |
Language | English |
Date | 2010 |
Publication Place | Las Vegas - Zurich - Athens |
Publisher | Parmenides Publishing |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | |
Editor(s) | Mohr, Richard D. , Sattler, Barbara M. |
Translator(s) |
This collection of original essays brings together philosophers, classicists, physicists, and architects to reveal the meaning and assess the impact of one of the most profound and influential works of Western letters - Plato's Timaeus, a work that comes as close as any to giving a comprehensive account of life, the universe, and everything, and does so in a startlingly narrow compass. The Timaeus gives an account of the nature of god and creation, a theory of knowledge, a taxonomy of the soul and perception, and an account of objects that gods and soul might encounter... [offical abstract] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/bwAYkdtmf6aNRSh |
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Title | One Book, The Whole Universe: Plato’s Timaeus Today |
Type | Edited Book |
Language | English |
Date | 2010 |
Publication Place | Las Vegas - Zurich - Athens |
Publisher | Parmenides Publishing |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | |
Editor(s) | Mohr, Richard D. , Sattler, Barbara M. |
Translator(s) |
This collection of original essays brings together philosophers, classicists, physicists, and architects to reveal the meaning and assess the impact of one of the most profound and influential works of Western letters - Plato's Timaeus, a work that comes as close as any to giving a comprehensive account of life, the universe, and everything, and does so in a startlingly narrow compass. The Timaeus gives an account of the nature of god and creation, a theory of knowledge, a taxonomy of the soul and perception, and an account of objects that gods and soul might encounter... [offical abstract] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/bwAYkdtmf6aNRSh |
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Title | What's the Matter? Some Neo-Platonist Answers |
Type | Book Section |
Language | English |
Date | 2010 |
Published in | One Book, The Whole Universe: Plato’s Timaeus Today |
Pages | 151-163 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Mueller, Ian |
Editor(s) | Mohr, Richard D. , Sattler, Barbara M. |
Translator(s) |
In this essay I want to say a very few things about Neo-Platonist interpretations of the T im aeus relating to the receptacle and the geometric characterization of earth, water, air, and fire. The starting point of my reflections was translating Simplicius’ commentary on books 3 and 4 of Aristotle’s On th e H eavens, and much of what I say is based upon that. But I will also be invoking a passage from his commentary on Aristotle’s Physics and some material in John Philoponus and Proclus. I begin with some remarks about Simplicius’ basic conception of what we call Aristotle’s criticisms of Plato. [p. 151] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/kdy176eZYVE5loi |
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