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Plato

 
9780140442618: Timaeus and Critias (Penguin Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140442618 ISBN 13: 9780140442618
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2006

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Taking the form of dialogues between Socrates, Timaeus, Critias and Hermocrates, these two works are among Plato's final writings. In Timaeus, he gives a thorough account of the world in which we live, describing a cosmos composed of four elements - earth, air, fire and water - which combine to give existence to all things. An exploration of the origins of the universe, life and humanity, which outlines not just physical laws but also metaphysical and religious principles, it remained a paradigm of science for two thousand years. The mysterious preamble to Timaeus contains the first account in literature of Atlantis, while the fragmentary Critias, unfinished by its author, provides a spellbinding description of the lost continent's ideal society, which Critias asserts was created by the god-like children of Poseidon himself.

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Plato (c. 427-347 b.c.) founded the Academy in Athens, the prototype of all Western universities, and wrote more than twenty philosophical dialogues.


Desmond Lee (1908-1993) taught for many years at Cambridge University..

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140442618
ISBN 13 
9780140442618
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
176
Herausgeber
Lee Desmond
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