Keywords:
Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (472 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789004320635
Series Statement:
Philosophia Antiqua Series ; v.41
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=5828982
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- PLATO WEIGHT AND SENSATION -- CONTENTS -- PART ONE WEIGHT AND DIRECTION -- THE ANALYSIS OF DIRECTION -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The common error -- 3 Centre and circumference -- 4 The central body -- 5 The cosmic traveller -- 6 Plato's universe -- II. THE ANALYSIS OF WEIGHT -- 1 The two observers -- 2 The alignment of opposites -- 3 The final definition -- 4 Translation -- III. THE MODERN EXTENSION -- 1 Taylor's interpretation -- 2 The false analogy -- 3 Plato's corrective -- 4 A second impasse -- IV. THE SCOPE OF THE THEORY -- 1 Element and observer -- 2 The new opposition -- 3 Weight and resistance -- PART TWO WEIGHT AND NUMBER -- V. ELEMENTAL TRIANGLES -- 1 The number of triangles -- 2 The size of triangles -- 3 Weight and density -- 4 Problems -- 5 Perspectives -- VI. SUBSTANCE AND SENSATION IN THE STRUCTURE OF THE 'TIMAEUS' -- 1 'Gene' and 'pathemata' -- 2 Hard and soft -- 3 Hot and cold -- 4 Sweet and sour -- VII. THE NATURE OF 'PATHEMATA' -- 1 Misinterpretations of 'pathemata' -- 2 Taylor's 'pathemata' -- 3 Cornford's 'pathemata' -- 4 'Pathemata' and 'aisthesis' -- VIII. THE CONCILIATION OF THE TWO THEORIES -- 1 The 'Timaeus' and the 'Theaetetus' -- 2 Names -- 3 The 'two' theories -- 4 The primitive world and the structured universe -- 5 Weight and the powers of reason -- PART THREE CRITICISM AND INTERPRETATION -- IX. ARISTOTLE ON PLATO -- 1 A new approach -- 2 'Sensibilia' -- 3 Weight and direction -- X. ARISTOTLE ON PLATO AND DEMOCRITUS -- 1 Monism and pluralism -- 2 Quantities of fire -- 3 An Achilles' heel -- XI. THEOPHRASTUS: EXEGESIS AND CRITICISM -- 1 Taylor's interpretation -- 2 Exegesis -- 3 Criticism -- XII. THEOPHRASTUS: THE FALSE DEFINITION -- 1 'Earthy substances' -- 2 Exploiting a paradox -- 3 Fire and air -- 4 Taylor's error -- XIII. THEOPHRASTus: THE TWO 'LOGAI' -- 1 The problem -- 2 The first 'logos'.
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3 The second 'logos' -- 4 The 'logoi' of fire and earth -- 5 The limitation of place -- XIV. THEOPHRASTUS: THE CHARGE OF INCONSISTEN -- 1 Earth 'here' and 'there' -- 2 Summary -- 3 Paraphrase -- XV. AN INTERPRETATION OF PLATO'S THEORY -- 1 Criticism in Aristotle and Theophrastus -- 2 Plato and Democritus -- 3 Heavy and light as 'affections of sense' -- 4 Quantity and movement -- 5 The comparison of elements -- 6 New and old in Plato's conception of heavy and light -- NOTES -- 1 'Centre and circumference' (Tim. 62D8-10) -- 2 Anaximander(cf. Tim. 62D12-63A2) -- 3 Taylor's extension of Plato's theory -- 4 Triangles -- 5 Void -- 6 'Copper and gold' (Tim. 59B6-C3) -- 7 The 'pathos' of weight -- 8 Names -- 9 'Up' and 'down' in the Phaedo and Timaeus -- 10 Theophrastus and the two 'logoi' -- 11 The paradox of relativity -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX LOCORUM -- RÉSUMÉ EN FRANÇAIS -- PUBLICATIONS DU MÊME AUTEUR.
