Plato's cosmology and it's ethical dimensions / Gabriela Roxana Carone.
"Although a great deal has been written on Plato's ethics, his cosmology has not received so much attention in recent times, and its importance for his ethical thought has remained underexplored. By offering accounts of Timaeus, Philebus, Politicus, and Laws X, the book reveals a strongly...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Demiurgy in the Timaeus
- Cosmic God and human reason in the Timaeus
- Creating mixtures in the Philebus
- Happiness in the universe of the Philebus
- Reversing the myth of the Politicus
- Cosmic and human drama in the Politicus
- Laws X: first causes and the origin of evil.
