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  1. Plato’s Timaeus and the Limits of Natural Science.Ian MacFarlane - forthcoming - Apeiron.
    The relationship between mind and necessity is one of the major points of difficulty for the interpretation of Plato’s Timaeus. At times Timaeus seems to say the demiurge is omnipotent in his creation, and at other times seems to say he is limited by pre-existing matter. Most interpretations take one of the two sides, but this paper proposes a novel approach to interpreting this issue which resolves the difficulty. This paper suggests that in his speech Timaeus presents two hypothetical models (...)
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  • Before the Creation of Time in Plato’s Timaeus.Daniel Vázquez - 2022 - In Daniel Vázquez & Alberto Ross (eds.), Time and Cosmology in Plato and the Platonic Tradition. pp. 111–133.
    I defend, against its more recent critics, a literal, factual, and consistent interpretation of Timaeus’ creation of the cosmos and time. My main purpose is to clarify the assumptions under which a literal interpretation of Timaeus’ cosmology becomes philosophically attractive. I propose five exegetical principles that guide my interpretation. Unlike previous literalists, I argue that assuming a “pre-cosmic time” is a mistake. Instead, I challenge the exegetical assumptions scholars impose on the text and argue that for Timaeus, a mere succession (...)
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  • Is the Form of the Good a Final Cause for Plato?Elizabeth Jelinek - 2016 - History of Philosophy Quarterly 33 (2):99-116.
    Many assume that Plato's Form of the Good is a final cause. This might be true if one assumes an Aristotelian definition of final cause; however, I argue that if one adopts Plato's conception of final causation as evidenced in the Phaedo and Timaeus, the claim that the Form of the Good is a final cause for Plato is untenable.
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  • نقش ضرورت در مواجهه با مسئلۀ شر در فلسفۀ افلاطون.محمد فیروزکوهی & علی اکبر احمدی افرمجانی - 2018 - دانشگاه امام صادق علیه السلام 16 (1):197-210.
    افلاطون در مواجهه با مسئله شر بیش از هر چیز می‌کوشید تا تنزه و تعالی خیر و مثل را از دخالت در ایجاد شر حفظ کند. از این رو جز این که سبب برخی شرور را خود آدمیان برمی‌شمرد، از عنصری به نام ضرورت سخن می‌گوید که در کنار عقل در کیهان و ساماندهی آن نقش می‌آفریند. وجود ضرورت به مثابه مانع و مزاحمی در مسیر کار عقل، تبیینی برای بروز نظام‌مند شر در جهان است. در واقع افلاطون برای یافتن (...)
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