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Timaeus and Critias

Timaeus and Critias

Plato
Gregory, Andrew
Waterfield, Robin

Paperback

Series: Oxford World's Classics

PhilosophyHistory & Philosophy of Science

Publisher Price: $12.95

ISBN10: 0192807358
ISBN13: 9780192807359
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Feb 1 2009
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.50
Language: English
'The god wanted everything to be good, marred by as little imperfection as possible.'

Timaeus, one of Plato's acknowledged masterpieces, is an attempt to construct the universe and explain its contents by means of as few axioms as possible. The result is a brilliant, bizarre, and surreal cosmos - the product of the rational thinking of a creator god and his astral assistants, and of purely mechanistic causes based on the behaviour of the four elements. At times dazzlingly clear, at times intriguingly opaque, this was state-of-the-art science in the middle of the fourth century BC. The world is presented as a battlefield of forces that are unified only by the will of God, who had to do the best he could with recalcitrant building materials.

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