Plato's Natural Philosophy

Examines the unifying teleological theme in Plato's dialogue the Timaeus-Critias.

Autorentext
Dr Thomas Kjeller Johansen is Reader in Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Aristotle on the Sense-Organs (0521 583381).

Klappentext
Examines the unifying teleological theme in Plato's dialogue the Timaeus-Critias.

Zusammenfassung
This book connects the accounts in Plato's dialogue the Timaeus-Critias, that of Atlantis' defeat by ancient Athens and that of the divine creation of the cosmos, through the unifying theme of teleology and shows the dialogue to be an important development in the Aristotelian tradition of natural philosophy.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements; Introduction: Plato's tales of teleology; 1. What is the Timaeus-Critias about?; 2. The status of the Atlantis story; 3. The status of Timaeus' account; 4. Teleology and craftsmanship; 5. Necessity and teleology; 6. Space and motion; 7. Body, soul and tripartition; 8. Perception and cosmology; 9. Dialogue and dialectic; Epilogue; Bibliography; General index; Index locorum.

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