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Filosofi & religion

Reason and Necessity

M R Wright

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  • 207 sidor
  • 2023
Plato's "Timaeus" contains a powerful and influential myth, of the construction of the universe by a divine craftsman. A god imposed reason on necessity, to bring order from a primeval 'receptacle' of disordered matter. There results the 'child' that is the cosmos - a copy of an externally-existing perfect model. Here eight new essays, from an international cast of scholars, explore aspects of this challenging work: the principles of the mythical narrative, how the world soul and human body are formed, implications for illness - mental and physical - and the importance of music and harmonious proportion. Later developments are also treated: Aristotles' theory of generation, the commentary of Proclus and elements of modern evolutionary theory.
  • Författare: M R Wright
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781914535253
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 207
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2023-10-12
  • Förlag: Classical Press of Wales