Time and Creation in the Timaeus
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003041603-3" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781003041603-3</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Time and Creation in the Timaeus
Original language description
Plato's Timaeus explores the genesis of the world and its structural dependence on external causes. Central to the controversy in the secondary literature is whether we should take the creation of the world literary or whether we should concentrate on the structural dependence only. This chapter explores Timaeus' views on time and its relevance to this controversy. I claim that in passages 37c6–39e2, Timaeus argues that time originated with the heavens and is essentially linked to planetary movements, suggesting the non-existence of time outside our world. However, in other passages, he also hints at a 'before' the creation of the heavens and considers the soul's precedence over the body. In this chapter, I analyse the bearing these conceptions of time have on the nature of motion and how our world imitates the paradigm. I conclude that understanding Timaeus' worldview requires recognising a more expansive concept of time, not limited to celestial rotations.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF15_003%2F0000425" target="_blank" >EF15_003/0000425: Centre for Ethics</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Time and Chronology in Creation Narratives
ISBN
978-0-367-48166-7
Number of pages of the result
12
Pages from-to
27-38
Number of pages of the book
158
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
London
UT code for WoS chapter
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