New PDF release: One Book, The Whole Universe: Plato's Timaeus Today

By Barbara M. Sattler, Richard D. Mohr

ISBN-10: 1930972326

ISBN-13: 9781930972322

The much-anticipated anthology on Plato’sTimaeus—Plato’s singular discussion at the production of the universe, the character of the actual global, and where of folks within the cosmos—examining all dimensions of 1 of an important books in Western Civilization: its philosophy, cosmology, technological know-how, and ethics, its literary features and reception. Contributions come from major students of their respective fields, together with Sir Anthony Leggett, 2003 Nobel Laureate for Physics. components of or past types of those papers have been first awarded at the Timaeus Conference, held on the collage of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in September of 2007. To at the present time, Plato’s Timaeus grounds the shape of moral and political pondering referred to as ordinary Law—the view that there are norms in nature that offer the styles for our activities and flooring the objectivity of human values. past the highbrow content material of the dialogue’s middle, its literary body is additionally the resource of the parable of Atlantis, giving the West the idea that of the “lost world.” From Platonic area to Presocratic vortices, from Philosopher-Kings to Craftsman-Gods and from smooth physics to the parable of Atlantis, One e-book, the full Universe presents in a single quantity the main up to date and penetrating scholarship on Plato’s Timaeus by a few of the maximum minds alive today. members Ann Bergren Gábor Betegh Sean Carroll Alan Code Zina Giannopoulou Verity Harte Thomas Kjeller Johansen Charles H. Kahn Anthony J. Leggett Anthony A. lengthy Stephen Menn Richard D. Mohr Kathryn A. Morgan Alexander P.D. Mourelatos Ian Mueller Thomas M. Robinson Barbara M. Sattler Allan Silverman Jon Solomon Anthony Vidler Matthias Vorwerk Donald Zeyl

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Seeing an individual as the source of all value and the centre of our happiness is, perhaps, a rather limited view to take of the rich possibilities for human happiness, and a heavy burden for any individual person to carry. Socrates, like many of his predecessors, is exploring a variety of good things on which our happiness can depend, such as honour or contemplation. In achieving the end that he advocates, individual persons are a source of wonder and reflection; for contemplation of Beauty is to be had by reflecting broadly upon the nature of value, and the kinds of things that make bodies and souls into beautiful instances of their kind (210c).

323Death of Alexander the Great of Macedon, taken as marking the end of the classical period of ancient Greece. Further reading Background information on the institution of the Greek symposium and pederasty is available in several important essays in O. Murray, Sympotika: A Symposium on the Symposium (Oxford, 1990). Of particular interest for understanding pederastic relationships in Greek culture are J. M. Bremmer, ‘Adolescents, symposion, pederasty’, in the Murray collection. Also of interest here are K.

How could a discussion of interpersonal love be so spectacularly dehumanised by Socrates? 29 Part of the difficulty here arises when the term eros is construed as ‘love’, which seems to carry with it a strong association with persons. Reflecting on the substance of the speeches we can now appreciate better that what is under consideration in this work is the nature and aims of human desire more broadly, and the role that loving relationships might play in shaping those desires towards beneficial ends.

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