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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 DOI: 10.1163/156852807X208026 Meta-Discourse: Plato’s Timaeus according to Calcidius Gretchen J. Reydams-Schils College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame, 100 O’Shaughnessy Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA reydams-schils.1@nd.edu Abstract Th is
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Phronesis
Überlieferung, Testimonia, Text und Übersetzung. Editio maior
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Philosophia Antiqua, Volume: 24
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Überlieferung, Testimonia, Text und Übersetzung. Editio maior
Series:
Philosophia Antiqua, Volume: 24
authors argue that De spiritu defends purely Aristotelian viewpoints against persons like Plato and Empedocles, who held respiration to be the most important vital process. Most of the De spiritu is directed against the pneuma doctrine of Plato’s Timaeus . Th e ‘Aristogenes’ mentioned in De spiritu 2 is
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Mnemosyne
(Τίμαιος; Tímaios). [German version] T. of Locri [2] Epizephyrii in southern Italy (Τίμαιος Λοκρός/Tímaios Lokrós), the main speaker in Plato's [1] Timaeus, was in Antiquity regarded as a Pythagorean [1.83-85]. The Suda s.v. T. (IV p. 553,26f. Adler) and the scholia to Pl. Tim. 20 A Greene report
Proceedings of the Tenth Symposium Platonicum Pragense
Plato's 'Timaeus' brings together a number of studies from both leading Plato specialists and up-and-coming researchers from across Europe. The contributions cover a wide variety of topics, ranging from the literary form of the work to the ontology of sense perception and the status of medicine in Timaeus' account. Although informed by a commitment to methodological diversity, the collection as a whole forms an organic unity, opening fresh perspectives on widely read passages, while shedding new light on less frequently discussed topics. The volume thus provides a valuable resource for students and researchers at all levels, whether their interest bears on the
Timaeus as a whole or on a particular passage.
Proceedings of the Tenth Symposium Platonicum Pragense
Plato's 'Timaeus' brings together a number of studies from both leading Plato specialists and up-and-coming researchers from across Europe. The contributions cover a wide variety of topics, ranging from the literary form of the work to the ontology of sense perception and the status of medicine in Timaeus' account. Although informed by a commitment to methodological diversity, the collection as a whole forms an organic unity, opening fresh perspectives on widely read passages, while shedding new light on less frequently discussed topics. The volume thus provides a valuable resource for students and researchers at all levels, whether their interest bears on the
Timaeus as a whole or on a particular passage.
1 Introduction The Timaeus contains a detailed treatment of aisthēsis , 1 and while there have been a number of recent articles on either sense-perception generally or individual senses in the dialogue, scholars have overlooked the complexity of Plato’s account of aisthēsis . 2 This is
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Phronesis
Although the Timaeus is known first and foremost as Plato’s contribution to cosmology, its scope extends beyond natural philosophy in the narrow sense to cover a wide range of topics, including ethics and politics. Plato brings the Socratic revolution full circle, not only by reinvigorating the
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Plato’s Timaeus
Finding the Harmony of the Spheres
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Plato's Timaeus
and the Missing Fourth Guest, Donna M. Altimari Adler proposes a new
Timaeus scale structure. She finds the harmonic cosmos, mathematically, at 35 A-36 D, regarding the text as a number generator. Plato's primary number sequence, she argues, yields a matrix defining a sophisticated harmony of the spheres. She stresses the Decad as the pattern governing both human perception and the generation of all things, in the
Timaeus, including the World Soul and musical scale symbolizing it. She precisely identifies Plato's "fabric" and its locus of severance and solves other thorny problems of textual interpretation.
Finding the Harmony of the Spheres
In
Plato's Timaeus
and the Missing Fourth Guest, Donna M. Altimari Adler proposes a new
Timaeus scale structure. She finds the harmonic cosmos, mathematically, at 35 A-36 D, regarding the text as a number generator. Plato's primary number sequence, she argues, yields a matrix defining a sophisticated harmony of the spheres. She stresses the Decad as the pattern governing both human perception and the generation of all things, in the
Timaeus, including the World Soul and musical scale symbolizing it. She precisely identifies Plato's "fabric" and its locus of severance and solves other thorny problems of textual interpretation.
At Timaeus 48b, the eponymous speaker famously restarts his account from the beginning, this time introducing what he had left out all along: the third kind or χώρα. 1 Timaeus must concede that his speech is out of order, again. This speech is meant to be the first offering of a series of
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Méthexis