God & forms in Plato

God & forms in Plato /

This book is a collection of dovetailing essays which together interpret and assess the chief arguments and texts which make up Plato's cosmology. Arguments in the Timaeus, Sophist, Statesman, Philebus, and Laws X are analyzed with an eye to problems which affect the wider understanding of Plat...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Mohr, Richard D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Las Vegas : Parmenides Pub., 2005
Edition:Rev. and expanded ed.
Subjects:
Plato.
Cosmology, Ancient.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE TO THE REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION (2005)
  • FROM THE ORIGINAL PREFACE (1985)
  • INTRODUCTION: THEMES AND THESES (1985)
  • PART ONE THE WORKS OF REASON
  • Divinity, Cognition, and Ontology: The Unique World Argument
  • Plato on Time and Eternity
  • PART TWO THE EFFECTS OF NECESSITY
  • Image, Flux, and Space in the Timaeus
  • The Gold Analogy in the Timaeus
  • Remarks on the Stereometric Nature and Status of the Primary Bodies in the Timaeus
  • The Mechanism of Flux in the Timaeus
  • PART THREE THE OTHER COSMOLOGICAL WRITINGS
  • Disorderly Motion in the StatesmanThe Sources of Evil Problem and the Principle of Motion Doctrine in the Phaedrus and Laws X
  • The World-Soul in the Platonic Cosmology
  • The Relation of Reason to Soul in the Platonic Cosmology: Sophist 248eâ€?249d
  • The Platonic Theodicy: Laws X, 899â€?905
  • RELATED ESSAYS ON PLATOâ€?S METAPHYSICS
  • Family Resemblance, Platonism, Universals
  • The Formation of the Cosmos in the Statesman Myth
  • The Divided Line and the Doctrine of Recollection in Plato
  • The Number Theory in Platoâ€?s Republic VII and Philebus
  • Extensions (2005)bibliography of works cited
  • index of platonic passages cited
  • author index

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