Reading of a Classical Philosophical Text

This course will consist in a reading and commentary of Platos's Timaeus.

The following topics will be treated:

1. The aspect in which Nature appeard to a greek philosopher.
2. Numbers and figures as the greatest instruments of thought.
3. The basic concepts of identity, difference and existence.
4. The influence this text exercised upon posterity.

• Giovanni REALE, A History of Ancient Philosophy, Albany, 1990.
• Plato's Cosmology (Timaeus), translated by F. Cornford, London, 1956.

FE 1004.

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