1st Edition

Plato's Cosmology The Timaeus of Plato

By Francis MacDonald Cornford Copyright 1937
396 Pages
by Routledge

396 Pages
by Routledge

398 Pages
by Routledge

This is Volume IV of ten on a series of Ancient Philosophy. Originally published in 1937, this text offers Plato's 'Timaeus' translated with a running commentary discussing each problem of interpretation.

PREFACE; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; THE TIMAEUS; INTRODUCTORY CONVERSATION; THE DISCOURSE OF TIMAEUS; 27C-29D. PRELUDE. The nature and scope of Physics (I) Being and Becoming (2) The Cause of Becoming (3) Model and copy Physics only a • likely story' I. THE WORKS OF REASON; II WHAT COMES ABOUT BY NECESSITY; III THE CO-OPERATION OF REASON AND NECESSITY; EPILOGUE

Biography

Francis Macdonald Cornford