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Socrates and DiotimaReligion without God

Socrates and Diotima: Religion without God [At a certain point in Plato’s Timaeus, Timaeus breaks off his story of the formation of the world according to arithmetic, geometric, and logical principles. There was something missing from his account, he says, something that has to be put “along side” works of “intelligence,” something that has to be there in the beginning before any divine Craftsman could begin his work. He will have to start again, he announces, and try to explain where the physical elements—the fire, earth, air, and water that are the material for creation—come from and what characteristics they had before the “Creator” brings order to the cosmos. Timaeus’s Creator is good because he is a mind, “copying” eternally preexisting, true, and beautiful mathematical forms, but in the amended account of creation that follows, he also has to work with the preexisting “beautiful” substances that nature itself provides.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Socrates and DiotimaReligion without God

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2015
ISBN
978-1-349-57292-2
Pages
147 –167
DOI
10.1057/9781137514042_10
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[At a certain point in Plato’s Timaeus, Timaeus breaks off his story of the formation of the world according to arithmetic, geometric, and logical principles. There was something missing from his account, he says, something that has to be put “along side” works of “intelligence,” something that has to be there in the beginning before any divine Craftsman could begin his work. He will have to start again, he announces, and try to explain where the physical elements—the fire, earth, air, and water that are the material for creation—come from and what characteristics they had before the “Creator” brings order to the cosmos. Timaeus’s Creator is good because he is a mind, “copying” eternally preexisting, true, and beautiful mathematical forms, but in the amended account of creation that follows, he also has to work with the preexisting “beautiful” substances that nature itself provides.]

Published: Dec 1, 2015

Keywords: Natural Kind; Living Thing; Divine Love; Unmoved Mover; Mortal Life

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