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Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus: Volume 2, Book 2: Proclus on the Causes of the Cosmos and its Creation

By Proclus

Book information

Year
2009
ISBN
0521848717, 9780521848718, 9780511465352
LCC
B387 .P7613 2008
Open Library ID
OL17049568M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1509200 bytes)
Pages
424\424
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This volume of Proclus' commentary on Plato's Timaeus records Proclus' exegesis of Timaeus 27a-31b, in which Plato first discusses preliminary matters that precede his account of the creation of the universe, and then moves to the account of the creation of the universe as a totality. For Proclus this text is a grand opportunity to reflect on the nature of causation as it relates to the physical reality of our cosmos. The commentary deals with many subjects that have been of central interest to philosophers from Plato's time onwards, such as the question whether the cosmos was created in time, and the nature of evil as it relates to physical reality and its ontological imperfection.

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