One Book, The Whole Universe
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One Book, The Whole Universe

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  1. 416 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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One Book, The Whole Universe

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Publisher
Parmenides Publishing
Year
2010
Print ISBN
9781930972322
eBook ISBN
9781930972612
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Ancient & Classical Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. A Reader's Guide to the Collection
  7. Notes on Contributors
  8. 1. Plato's Timaeus: Some Resonances in Modern Physics and Cosmology
  9. 2. Cosmic Craftsmanship in Plato and Stoicism
  10. 3. Philosopher-Kings and Craftsman-Gods
  11. 4. The Place of Cosmology in Plato's Later Dialogues
  12. 5. Maker or Father? The Demiurge from Plutarch to Plotinus
  13. 6. Plato on (just about) Everything
  14. 7. Visualizing Platonic Space
  15. 8. The Receptacle and the Primary Bodies
  16. 9. The Timaeus and the Critique of Presocratic Vortices
  17. 10. What's the Matter? Some Neo-Platonist Answers
  18. 11. Derrida's Khora, or Unnaming the Timaean Receptacle
  19. 12. Should Aristotle Have Recognized Final Causes in Plato's Timaeus?
  20. 13. Aristotle on Plato on Weight
  21. 14. What Makes a Myth eikos?
  22. 15. The Epistemological Section (29b0d) of the Proem in Timaeus' Speech
  23. 16. A Time for Learning and for Counting
  24. 17. Narrative Orders in the Timaeus and Critias
  25. 18. Timaeus in Tinseltown: Atlantis in Film
  26. 19. The Atlantis Effect: The Lost Origins of Architecture
  27. 20. Plato's Timaeus and the Aesthetics of "Animate Form"
  28. 21. Time and Change in an Eternal Universe
  29. Index Locorum
  30. General Index

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