Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus: Volume 2, Book 2: Proclus on the Causes of the Cosmos and its Creation
Commentary on Plato's Timaeus
Published on 2. November 2017
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Paperback/Softback
422 pages
978-1-316-63753-1 (ISBN)
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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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English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
562 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-316-63753-1 (9781316637531)
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Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus: Volume 2, Book 2: Proclus on the Causes of the Cosmos and its Creation
Commentary on Plato's Timaeus
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Persons
David T. Runia is Master of Queen's College and Professorial Fellow, School of History, Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. He has written numerous books and articles on ancient philosophy, specialising in the thought of Philo of Alexandria and the subject of ancient doxography. Michael Share is an Honorary Associate in the School of History and Classics, University of Tasmania.
Content
Notes on the translation; Introduction to Book II; Structure of the commentary; Method of the commentary; The sources for Proclus' commentary; Main themes of the commentary; On the Timaeus of Plato: Book II; Analytical table of contents; On the proemium (27c-29d), translated by David T. Runia; On the creation of the cosmos (29e-31b) by Michael Share; References; English-Greek glossary; Greek word index; General index.