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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Note |
Proceedings of a conference held Sept. 13-16, 2007 at the University of Illinois (Urbana). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Plato's cosmic manual : introduction, reader's guide, and acknowledgments / Richard D. Mohr -- Plato's Timaeus : some resonances in modern physics and cosmology / Anthony J. Leggett -- Cosmic craftsmanship in Plato and Stoicism / Anthony A. Long -- Philosopher kings and craftsman-gods / Allan Silverman -- Place of cosmology in Plato's later dialogues / Charles H. Kahn -- Maker or father? : the demiurge from Plutarch to Plotinus / Matthias Vorwerk -- Plato on (just about) everything : some observations on the Timaeus and other dialogues / Thomas M. Robinson -- Visualizing Platonic space / Donald Zeyl -- Receptacle and the primary bodies : something from nothing? / Verity Harte -- Timaeus and the critique of presocratic vortices / Stephen Menn -- What's the matter? : some neo-Platonist answers / Ian Mueller -- Derrida's Khôra, or Unnaming the Timaean receptacle / Zina Giannopoulou -- Should Aristotle have recognized final causes in Plato's Timaeus? / Thomas K. Johansen -- Aristotle on Plato on weight / Alan Code -- What makes a myth eikôs? : remarks inspired by Myles Burnyeat's Eikôs mythos / Gábor Betegh -- Epistemological section (29b-d) of the proem in Timaeus' speech : M.F. Burnyeat on eikôs mythos, and comparison with Xenophanes B34 and B35 / Alexander P.D. Mourelatos -- Time for learning and for counting : Egyptians, Greeks, and empirical processes in Plato's Timaeus / Barbara M. Sattler -- Narrative orders in the Timaeus and Critias / Kathryn A. Morgan -- Timaeus in tinseltown : Atlantis in film / Jon Solomon -- Atlantis effect : the lost origins of architecture / Anthony Vidler -- Plato's Timaeus and the aesthetics of "animate form" / Ann Bergren -- Time and change in an eternal universe / Sean M. Carroll. |
| Summary |
One Book, The Whole Universe: Plato's Timaeus Today brings together philosophers, classicists, physicists and architects to reveal the meaning and assess the impact of one of the most profound and influential texts in Western Civilization. Featuring the latest scholarship from some of today's greatest minds, this illustrated work explores everything from Philosopher-Kings to Craftsman-Gods, from the "lost world" myth of Atlantis to the possibility of multiverses. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Plato. Timaeus.
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Plato. Timaeus. |
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Timaeus (Plato) |
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Cosmogony, Ancient.
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Cosmogony, Ancient. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Mohr, Richard D.
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Sattler, Barbara M., 1974-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: One book, the whole universe. Las Vegas : Parmenides Pub., 2010 9781930972322 (DLC) 2010000651 |
| ISBN |
9781930972612 (electronic book) |
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193097261X (electronic book) |
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1930972326 (paperback) |
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9781930972322 (paperback) |
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1282641638 |
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9781282641631 |
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9781930972322 (paperback) |
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