Mathematization, Movement, and Extension of the World-Soul in Plato's Timaeus (Tim. 35b4-37a2)

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.phil.muni.cz/profil/article/view/37080/32065" target="_blank" >https://journals.phil.muni.cz/profil/article/view/37080/32065</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/pf23-2-37080" target="_blank" >10.5817/pf23-2-37080</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Mathematization, Movement, and Extension of the World-Soul in Plato's Timaeus (Tim. 35b4-37a2)

Original language description

The main aim of this study is to explain passage 35b4-37a2 of Plato’s Timaeus which deals with three main topics: the mathematization of the world’s soul, its movement, and its binding to the world’s body. First, it is argued that the mathematical structure of the world-soul allows it to participate in and be sensitive to harmony, which is essential for the correct workings of its cognitive capacities. Second, the division of the world-soul to the circle of the same and the circles of the different and its self-motion comes in. This allows it to ‘touch’ and cognize the forms and the material things, as well as rule the movement of the corporeal world and care for it. In this aspect, the world-soul continues the process that started with the original creative act of the demiurge. Third, it is argued that the description of the world-soul’s binding to the world-body entails its conception as a spatially extended entity, which, in turn, explains of the possibility of an interaction between the corporeal world and its soul.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Pro-Fil - An Internet Journal of Philosophy

ISSN

1212-9097

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

24

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

43-54

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85182556036