Pulse en una miniatura para ir a Google Books.
Cargando... Timaeuspor Platon
Cargando...
Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. PLATO'S COSMOLOGY: THE TIMATEUS OF PLATO Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; that he left Athens for a time after Socrates' execution is probable; that later he went to Cyrene, Egypt, and Sicily is possible; that he was wealthy is likely; that he was critical of 'advanced' democracy is obvious. He lived to be 80 years old. Linguistic tests including those of computer science still try to establish the order of his extant philosophical dialogues, written in splendid prose and revealing Socrates' mind fused with Plato's thought. In Laches, Charmides, and Lysis, Socrates and others discuss separate ethical conceptions. Protagoras, Ion, and Meno discuss whether righteousness can be taught. In Gorgias, Socrates is estranged from his city's thought, and his fate is impending. The Apology (not a dialogue), Crito, Euthyphro, and the unforgettable Phaedo relate the trial and death of Socrates and propound the immortality of the soul. In the famous Symposium and Phaedrus, written when Socrates was still alive, we find the origin and meaning of love. Cratylus discusses the nature of language. The great masterpiece in ten books, the Republic, concerns righteousness (and involves education, equality of the sexes, the structure of society, and abolition of slavery). Of the six so-called dialectical dialogues Euthydemus deals with philosophy; metaphysical Parmenides is about general concepts and absolute being; Theaetetus reasons about the theory of knowledge. Of its sequels, Sophist deals with not-being; Politicus with good and bad statesmanship and governments; Philebus with what is good. The Timaeus seeks the origin of the visible universe out of abstract geometrical elements. The unfinished Critias treats of lost Atlantis. Unfinished also is Plato's last work of the twelve books of Laws (Socrates is absent from it), a critical discussion of principles of law which Plato thought the Greeks might accept. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Plato is in twelve volumes. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Contenido enTiene como estudio a
Es la obra de Platón con más importancia grecorromana y medieval. Al menos hasta el siglo XVI es lo más leído de Platón. Esto se debe no tanto a su dimensión física como a su dimensión cosmogónica, y es lo que hace que se asocie tan facilmente al cristianismo primitivo. Es la primera cosmogonía de la historia que es teleológica a la vez que lógica. Puede ser tomado como el compendio de lo que se discutía en la Academia en el momento de redacción, tanto en términos de cosmología como de política No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
Debates activosNingunoCubiertas populares
Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)113Philosophy and Psychology Metaphysics Life And NatureClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
¿Eres tú?Conviértete en un Autor de LibraryThing. |
PREFACE
This book is constructed on the same plan as an earlier volume in the series, Plato's Theory of Knowledge. It contains a translation
of the Timaeus interspersed with a commentary discussing each problem of interpretation-and there are many hitherto unsolved
-as it arises. My first aim has been to render 'Plato's words as closely as I can. Anyone who attempts to reproduce his exalted
poetical style must face the certainty of failure, with the added risk of falsifying the sense, especially by misleading reminiscences
of the English Bible. The commentary is designed to guide the reader through a long and intricate argument and to explain what
must remain obscure in the most faithful translation; for the Timaeus covers an immense field at the cost of compressing the
thought into the smallest space. Only with some such aid can students of theology and philosophy have access to a document
which has deeply influenced mediaeval and modern speculation.
I have tried not to confuse the interpretation of the text with the construction of theories of wider scope. The later Platonism is a
subject on which agreement may never be reached; but there is some hope of persuading scholars that a Greek sentence means one thing rather than another.
The translation follows Burnet's text, except where I have given reasons for departing from it or proposed corrections of passages
that are probably or certainly corrupt. For the interpretation I have consulted, in the first instance, the commentaries of Proclus
and Chalcidius, the fragment of Galen's commentary lately reedited by Schroder, the relevant treatises of Plutarch, and Theon
of Smyrna, who preserves valuable extracts from Dercylides and Adrastus. The careful summary of the Timaeus in the Didascalicus
of the Middle Platonist Albinus deserves more attention than it receives. Among the moderns I have drawn freely upon Martin's
admirable Etudes sur le Timce de Platon, Archer-Rind's commentary, and the translations of Apelt, Fraccaroli, Rivaud, and Professor A. E. Taylor.1 More useful than any of these has been Professor Taylor's 1 I regret that I did not learn that Mr. R. G. Bury's translation had appeared
until it was too late to make use of it.