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Timaeus

428? BCE-348? BCE Plato · Benjamin Jowett

FormatEbook
Published1998
Words72,747
LanguageEnglish
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Plato's dialogue presents a philosophical account of the origin and structure of the cosmos, describing how a divine craftsman shaped the universe from mathematical order. It suits readers of ancient philosophy, cosmology, and the history of ideas, in Benjamin Jowett's classic English translation.
From our reading desk Timaeus: Plato's Cosmos, Filtered Through JowettPlato's account of the making of the world, wrapped in a long introduction that spends as much time explaining the book as the book spends on the cosmos.

428? BCE-348? BCE Plato

Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher active in the 4th and 5th centuries BCE, who wrote philosophical dialogues. He is known for founding the Academy in Athens and for foundational contributions to Western philosophy, including works on ethics, politics, and metaphysics.

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