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Half Title 2 Series Information 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 Acknowledgements 7 Abbreviations 8 Introduction: Time and the Cosmos in Plato and the Platonic Tradition 12 1 Plato on Time and the Cosmos 12 2 The Platonic Tradition 18 3 Motivation and Overall Structure of the Volume 23 4 Summary of the Contents 25 References 29 Chapter 1 Continuity and Community in the Myth of the Statesman 33 1.1 Introduction 33 1.2 The Times We Live In 35 1.3 God and the Cosmos 40 1.4 Mythic Time 44 1.5 Conclusion 51 References 53 Chapter 2 The Demiurge and His Place in Plato’s Metaphysics and Cosmology 55 2.1 The Opinions of the Ancients 56 2.2 Modern Critics and the Demiurge 66 2.3 What Plato Really Thought: A Modest Proposal 72 Acknowledgements 84 References 84 Chapter 3 Goodbye to the Demiurge?: Timaeus’ Discourse as a Thought Experiment 89 3.1 In the Demiurge’s Footsteps 89 3.2 Timaeus’ Discourse as a Thought Experiment 95 3.3 The Great Experiment 101 3.4 A Demiurge, What For? 111 References 118 Chapter 4 Before the Creation of Time in Plato’s Timaeus 122 4.1 A Puzzle in Timaeus’ Cosmogony 122 4.2 Assessment of the Contemporary Debate 125 4.3 Cosmogony without Inconsistency 129 4.

Author

Daniel Vázquez and Alberto Ross

Language

EN