An edition of God & forms in Plato (2005)

God & forms in Plato

the Platonic cosmology

Rev. and expanded ed.
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An edition of God & forms in Plato (2005)

God & forms in Plato

the Platonic cosmology

Rev. and expanded ed.

This book is a collection of dovetailing essays which together interpret and assess the chief arguments and texts which make up Plato's cosmology. Arguments in the Timaeus, Sophist, Statesman, Philebus, and Laws X are analyzed with an eye to problems which affect the wider understanding of Plato's metaphysics, theology, epistemology, psychology, and physics. New interpretations are given to Plato's views on the role and characteristics of his craftsman God, the nature and status of Forms, the nature of time and eternity, the status and nature of space and the phenomenal realm, and the nature of and relations between reason, souls, bodies, and motion. The book is critically sympathetic to the Platonic project, at least to the extent that it argues that many (though not all) features of the Platonic cosmology are more intelligible and coherent than usually supposed by critics. It defends the view that for Plato God makes the world in the way that a carpenter cuts a board to be exactly a yard long - by applying a yard stick to the board and removing the excess wood. This view of a making requires that there be standards or measures that exist independently both of the agent who creates and the world on which he works. These standards are Plato's Forms. Transcendent Forms cannot be excised from the Platonic metaphysics as many modern critics have been trying to do in an attempt to make Plato respectable by today's criteria of philosophical decency. This work presents a revised and updated edition of the author's 1985 book The Platonic Cosmology (E.J. Brill, Leiden) together with four revised and updated essays by the author on Plato's metaphysics, and a wholly new essay, "Extensions," which expands the themes of the book into wider philosophical contexts.

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God and Forms in Plato
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God & forms in Plato: the Platonic cosmology
2005, Parmenides Pub., Parmenides Publishing
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Rev. ed. of: The Platonic cosmology. 1985.

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God and forms in Plato

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Dewey Decimal Class
113.092
Library of Congress
B398.C67 M64 2005, B398.C67M64 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
304

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Open Library
OL3416415M
Internet Archive
godformsplato00mohr
ISBN 10
1930972016
ISBN 13
9781930972018
LCCN
2005032661
Library Thing
1964816
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2025778

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