Time and Cosmology in Plato and the Platonic Tradition (Brill's Plato Studies)

✍ Scribed by Daniel Vázquez, Alberto Ross

• Publisher: BRILL
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book assembles an international team of scholars to move forward the study of Plato’s conception of time, to find fresh insights for interpreting his cosmology, and to reimagine the Platonic tradition.

✦ Table of Contents

Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Time and the Cosmos in Plato and the Platonic Tradition
1 Plato on Time and the Cosmos
2 The Platonic Tradition
3 Motivation and Overall Structure of the Volume
4 Summary of the Contents
References
Chapter 1 Continuity and Community in the Myth of the Statesman
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The Times We Live In
1.3 God and the Cosmos
1.4 Mythic Time
1.5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 2 The Demiurge and His Place in Plato’s Metaphysics and Cosmology
2.1 The Opinions of the Ancients
2.2 Modern Critics and the Demiurge
2.3 What Plato Really Thought: A Modest Proposal
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter 3 Goodbye to the Demiurge?: Timaeus’ Discourse as a Thought Experiment
3.1 In the Demiurge’s Footsteps
3.2 Timaeus’ Discourse as a Thought Experiment
3.3 The Great Experiment
3.4 A Demiurge, What For?
References
Chapter 4 Before the Creation of Time in Plato’s Timaeus
4.1 A Puzzle in Timaeus’ Cosmogony
4.2 Assessment of the Contemporary Debate
4.3 Cosmogony without Inconsistency
4.3.1 Methodology
4.3.2 Defense of a Consistent and Factual Cosmogony
4.3.2.1 Time Means Cosmic Time
4.3.2.2 Pre-Cosmos without Cosmic Time
4.3.2.3 God’s Activity Is Always the Same If Correctly Specified
4.3.2.4 Traces of the Elements and Disorderly Motion in the Pre-cosmos
4.4 Conclusions
References
Chapter 5 Time and Light in Plato’s Timaeus
5.1 The Evidence of Light
5.2 Cosmic Nights-and-Days
5.3 Time and Sunlight
5.4 Conclusion
References
Chapter 6 Eternity, Instantaneity, and Temporality: Tackling the Problem of Time in Plato’s Cosmology
6.1 Introduction: Can Time Arise from Durationless Atemporality?
6.2 Fixing the Moving Image of Eternity
6.3 On Generation of Time and the World
6.4 Instantaneity as a Form of Atemporality
6.5 Instantaneity and the Cosmology in the Timaeus
6.5.1. Atemporality and Demiurgic Agency: Acting at the Boundary
6.5.2 Plato’s Chōra and Instantaneity
6.6 Closing Remarks
Acknowledgement
References
Chapter 7 Is the Prime Mover a Soul?: A Critique of a Platonic Thesis in Physics viii
7.1 Introduction
7.2 God and the Divine in Plato
7.3 The Need for a Prime Mover in Physics viii.5
7.4 Is Aristotle’s Prime Mover a Soul?
7.5 Final Remarks: The Absolute Immobility of the Prime Mover
References
Chapter 8 Stoic Cosmic Intelligence and Its Platonic Background
8.1 The Teleological Basis of F1 and the Biological Basis of F2
8.2 The Platonic Roots of F1 and F2
8.3 The Evidence for F3 and Why F3 and F2 Are Two Distinct Families
8.4 Conclusion
References
Index Nominum
Index Locorum