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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Timaeus"”.
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Self and body in Plato: Phaedo, Republic, Timaeus
… of the self in Plato’s Phaedo, Republic, and Timaeus. Even though it is usually argued that for Plato the real self is simply the soul and that the body is merely a hindrance toward realization of the ideal self, my analysis of these dialogues shows that the body may be assigned a constructive …
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The language of cosmogony: literary experimentalism and metaphor in Plato’s Timaeus and Augustine’s Confessions.
… Western discourses on cosmogony: Plato’s Timaeus, and Augustine’s Confessions. In analysing these two texts, the thesis makes two main arguments: first, that the problem of ineffability inherent to cosmogony prompts an author’s recourse to experimental literary methods, to new ways of …
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The Problem of Separation (χωρισμός) and Participation (μέθεξις) in Plato’s Late Dialogues (Parmenides, Sophist, Timaeus) /
… to receive solutions in the Sophist and the Timaeus. The Sophist deals with the noetic aspect of the problem and provides an arithmological interpretation of Forms, which explains the structural relations between them in a meaningful way, while the Timaeus deals with the dianoetic aspect of …
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Footnotes to Footnotes: Whitehead's Plato
… Platonic elements (consisting chiefly in the Timaeus); second, investigation of what motivated his interpretation and appropriation of Platonic cosmology (I emphasize the influence of A.E. Taylor’s Commentary on the Timaeus); third, analysis of the aforementioned “footnote” remark, and of how …
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Traditional Gods and Civic Religion in Plato’s Later Dialogues
… their cosmological status and function in the Timaeus and the Critias as well as the ethical value of civic religion in the Laws. In the first chapter, I discuss the place of traditional gods in the cosmogony of the Timaeus. I argue that the dialogue preserves only a few elements of the …
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Plutarch reading Plato: Interpretation and Mythmaking in the Early Empire
… of the world might be good, such as in the <em>Timaeus</em>. Imagistic narratives such as these, for Plutarch as for Plato, do not transcend the reach of rational discourse, as much of the scholarship holds, however, but rather form likely accounts. Second, I argue that Plutarch constructs his …
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The estimation and interpretation of adult mortality rates of African South Africans using Census 2001 data
… follow the work done by Dorrington, Moultrie and Timaeus (2004) working with the full dataset, which is not publicly anilable, and demonstrate that the 10% sample can be used to produce similar results to the full database. The approach makes use of indirect estimation techniques for estimating …
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The Silver Fraction - A Weathered Inebriation: Plans, Elevations, Sections, Details, Models and Texts for a Brewery and a Biergarten on the bank of the Potomac River, Alexandria, Virginia
… relationship is a Material Reciprocity. In the Timaeus, a concept of a world soul is outlined in which all elements that compose the physical world (the "ten-thousand things" of the Tao-Te Ching) are endowed with consciousness: the Anima Mundi. How does architecture become part of Place? What …
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Chorus and Cacophony: Philosophy as Khoreia in the Works of Plato
… the gods and Muses, humnoi, and muthoi. In the Timaeus, the ensouled heavenly bodies revolve in chorus (40c) and Soul is constructed according to mathematical and harmonic ratios (35aff); the divine and best souls in the Phaedrus participate in the divine chorus, and rise to encounter the Forms’ …
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Plato's analogical thought
… in the Phaedo, the “receptacle” (chōra) in the Timaeus, and the example of weaving in the Statesman reveals that even if the theory each elucidates is not explicitly concerned with analogy, the theories these images enable are structured by analogy. Thus, although there is no theory of analogy …
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'And That Misformed Shape, Misshaped More': The Stranger Mathematics of 'The Faerie Queene'
… poetry-as-worldmaking. Emphasising how Plato’s Timaeus inspired the notion of a geometrically derived cosmos, it shows how humanist poets advanced an analogy between literary microcosm and mathematical cosmos: verse was ‘numbers’, metre was ‘measure’, and syllables were quantities to ‘weigh’. …
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Testing the orphanhood method against benchmark mortality rates in South Africa since 1996
… variant, UN Manual’s two-survey variant, Timaeus’s synthetic cohort variant and the one allowing for HIV/AIDS proposed by Timaeus and Nunn.
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Old age mortality in South Africa
… projections, and Dorrington, Moultrie and Timaeus (2004). Conclusions reached are that the mortality rates for the age groups 75 to 89 derived after re-estimating the population numbers and after allowing for the fall in the completeness of reporting of deaths are lower but not …
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Plato's Villains: The Ethical Implications of Plato's Portrayal of Alcibiades and Critias
… Protagoras, the Alcibiades I, the Symposium, the Timaeus-Critias, the Charmides and the Republic in order to show Plato's creation and use of the diachronic dimension surrounding paradigmatic characters in order to show the effects of time on virtue. In so doing, I substantially contribute to our …
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Music, number, and logic in Eriugena’s reading of Augustine’s De musica
… the first instance to explain parts of Plato’s Timaeus. A second part concerns the definition of musica in the first book of the Periphyseon. Two versions of the definition are found in the earliest copies of this text. One is written in an Irish hand now believed to be the autograph of Eriugena …
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Platonic Modes of Explanation
… forces at work. Chapters 4 and 5 focus on the Timaeus, a dialogue in which Plato fully develops the theory of explanation he offers in the Phaedo and the Republic. I show that Plato holds that matter, Form, and telos all figure in legitimate explanations concerning the formation of the sensible …
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Anthropogony, Myth and Gender: Athenian Autochthony as a Case Study
… world. Chapter 4 investigates Plato’s Republic, Timaeus and Critias. In these works, myths of autochthony are repurposed again to criticize the civic idea of autochthony. Together, the four chapters demonstrate how different and competing authors and genres self-consciously revise myths, and how …
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Plato's Principles of Causation
In the Phaedo at 96a-101c, Plato appears to be committed to the following three negative principles of causation: (1) the same cause cannot produce opposite effects; (2) opposite causes cannot produce the same effect; (3) an opposite cannot cause an opposite. Plato also appears to hold a further, …
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