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This book is a collection of eleven essays on aspects of Plato's cosmology. Eight of the essays have previously appeared in scholarly journals. Six of the eleven are devoted to passages in the Timaeus; the others concern passages in other late Platonic dialogues. The essays are preceded by an introduction which states the main "themes and theses" developed in them; they are followed by a bibliography, an index locorum, and an index of authors cited. The longest and most original of the essays are the first two, which deal with Tim. 30c–31b (the "unique world argument") and 37c–38c (on time), respectively. Mohr argues that the cosmos is unique because it is an "immanent standard," a sensible counterpart of the Form of Living Being (like all Forms a "transcendent standard"), and standards must be unique. In his analysis of 37c–38c Mohr also describes Platonic time as an immanent standard, namely a clock (59). Essays three and four concern Plato's account of the Receptacle (space) and the status of the phenomena that appear in it. Space is a medium in which phenomena appear; phenomena are unknowable insofar as they are in flux, but intelligible insofar as they are images of Forms. In

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Author

Richard Mohr, Richard D. Mohr

Publisher

Brill Academic Publishers

Published

1985

Language

EN

ISBN

9789004320642

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, History