Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus: Volume 2, Book 2: Proclus on the Causes of the Cosmos and its Creation

Proclus (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

424 Seiten

2008
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-84871-8 (ISBN)

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This volume of Proclus' commentary on Plato's Timaeus records Proclus' exegesis of Timaeus 27a–31b, in which Plato first discusses preliminary matters that precede his account of the creation of the universe, and then moves to the account of the creation of the universe as a totality. For Proclus this text is a grand opportunity to reflect on the nature of causation as it relates to the physical reality of our cosmos. The commentary deals with many subjects that have been of central interest to philosophers from Plato's time onwards, such as the question whether the cosmos was created in time, and the nature of evil as it relates to physical reality and its ontological imperfection.

David T. Runia is Master of Queen's College and Professorial Fellow, School of History, Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. He has written numerous books and articles on ancient philosophy, specialising in the thought of Philo of Alexandria and the subject of ancient doxography. Michael Share is an Honorary Associate in the School of History and Classics, University of Tasmania.

Notes on the translation; Introduction to Book II; Structure of the commentary; Method of the commentary; The sources for Proclus' commentary; Main themes of the commentary; On the Timaeus of Plato: Book II; Analytical table of contents; On the proemium (27c-29d), translated by David T. Runia; On the creation of the cosmos (29e-31b) by Michael Share; References; English-Greek glossary; Greek word index; General index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.12.2008
Reihe/Serie	Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus
Übersetzer	David T. Runia, Michael Share
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 235 mm
Gewicht	800 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	0-521-84871-7 / 0521848717
ISBN-13	978-0-521-84871-8 / 9780521848718
Zustand	Neuware