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Timaeus — Plato

Timaeus

Plato

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 160 pages

Timaeus is a philosophical dialogue by Plato in which Timaeus gives an account of the origin and structure of the cosmos. Through discussion of creation, the elements, the world soul, and humanity's place in an ordered universe, it blends philosophy, mathematics, and myth. It is worth listening to as an influential foundation of Western cosmological thought.

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Opening of the book

TIMAEUS

by Plato

Translated by Benjamin Jowett

Contents

INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.

Section 1.

Section 2.

Section 3.

Section 4.

Section 5.

Section 6.

Section 7.

Section 8.

TIMAEUS

INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.

Of all the writings of Plato the Timaeus is the most obscure and repulsive to the modern reader, and has nevertheless had the greatest influence over the ancient and mediaeval world. The obscurity arises in the infancy of physical science, out of the confusion of theological,

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Contents

  1. TIMAEUS
  2. Translated by Benjamin Jowett
  3. Contents
  4. INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.
  5. Section 1.
  6. Section 2.
  7. Section 3.
  8. Section 4.
  9. Section 5.
  10. Section 6.
  11. Section 7.
  12. Section 8.
  13. TIMAEUS.
  14. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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