Sarah Broadie

Nature and Divinity in Plato's Timaeus

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Brings Plato's ideas to life, proposing new interpretations of major elements including the cosmic 'beginning' and the Atlantis story.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781107012066
• ISBN-10: 1107012066
• Artikelnr.: 33690396

Autorenporträt

Sarah Broadie is Professor of Moral Philosophy and Wardlaw Professor at the University of St Andrews. She is the author of Ethics with Aristotle (1991) and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (2002), and (as Sarah Waterlow) of Passage and Possibility: A Study of Aristotle's Modal Concepts (1984) and Nature, Change, and Agency in Aristotle's Physics: A Philosophical Study (1984).

Inhaltsangabe

What lies ahead
1. The separateness of the demiurge
2. Paradigms and epistemic possibilities
3. The metaphysics of the paradigm
4. Immortal intellect under mortal conditions
5. The Timaeus-Critias Complex
6. The genesis of the four elements
7. Divine and natural causation
In conclusion.