Overview
- Offers new interpretations of the old Platonic puzzles regarding the nature of time and the status of the physical world
- Brings the reader a step closer to grasping the riddles of Plato´s concepts of time and physical creation
- Revisits the hard questions of Platonic cosmology which are discussed in a fresh and inspirative way
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About this book
This book focuses on two central topics that could help us answer how Plato conceives of the physical world and its relationship to Forms. The first one is the Platonic concept of time. What is it, how is it defined, what is it not, and how does it help us describe the changing realities surrounding us? The second one is Plato’s understanding of the perceptible world. How is it related to Forms, and how exactly does it work? These are central, wide-ranging, and highly contested questions garnering attention in recent Platonic scholarship.
This book brings together an international team that aims to offer bold, innovative, and thought-provoking answers to these questions. The nine contributions in this book represent a diverse range of starting points, methodologies, and interpretative traditions whose collective aim is to challenge assumptions about Plato’s philosophy and help the reader rethink and revisit the Platonic corpus with fresh eyes.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Viktor Ilievski is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Ancient Philosophy. He has been affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University of Bucharest. He has been a visiting scholar at Charles University, University of Crete, and La Sapienza. He publishes mostly in Platonic cosmology and theology.
Dr. Daniel Vázquez, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. Before his current appointment, he held positions at the UAB (Spain), USP (Brazil), and Oxford (UK). He has been a visiting scholar at Trinity College Dublin, La Sapienza, Princeton, Oxford, Cornell, and Yale.
Prof. Silvia De Bianchi (Università degli Studi di Milano Statale & Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) is Associate Professor at the University of Milan. She is PI of the ERC project Paradoxes and Metaphors of Time in Early Universe(s) investigating temporality in different cosmological models and the legacy of Plato‘s Timaeus.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Plato on Time and the World
Editors: Viktor Ilievski, Daniel Vázquez, Silvia De Bianchi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28198-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-28197-6Published: 25 August 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-28200-3Due: 25 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-28198-3Published: 24 August 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 226
Topics: History of Philosophy, Ontology