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Book SynopsisThe particular focus of this volume is a study of the influence of Timaeus on the development of Western cosmology in three axial periods of European culture: Late Antiquity, Middle Ages and Renaissance. In each period, the Timaeus was read in a different context and from different perspectives. During the Middle Ages, scholars were mostly interested in reconciling the rational cosmology of the Timaeus with the Christian understanding of creation. In Late Antiquity, the concordance of Plato with Aristotle was considered the most important issue, whereas in early modern times, the confrontation with the new mathematical physics offered possibilities for a fresh assessment of Plato's explanation of the cosmos. The present volume has three sections corresponding to these three periods of interpreting the Timaeus, each sectionis introduced by a synthesis of the main issues at discussion. This 'epochal' approach gives this volume its particular character.
Table of ContentsThomas Leinkauf - Carlos Steel
Preface
Thomas Leinkauf
Vorwort
I. Spätantike
Franco Ferrari (Salerno)
Interpretare il Timeo
Christoph Helmig (Leuven)
Die Weltentstehung des Timaios - zum kosmologischen Hintergrund von Plutarchs De sera numinis vindicta 550 D-E
Walter Mesch (Heidelberg)
Plotins Deutung der platonischen Weltseele. Zur antiken Rezeptionsgeschichte von Timaios 35 A
Jan Opsomer (Köln)
A craftsman and his handmaiden. Demiurgy according to PLotinus
Alain Lernould (Lille)
En quoi la physique du Timée est-elle encore selon Proclus un 'eikos logos'?
Carlos Steel (Leuven)
Proclus' defence of the Timaeus against Aristotle's abjections. A reconstruction of a lost polemical treatise
Guy Guldentops (Leuven)
Plato's Timaeus in Simplicius' In de caelo. A confrontation with Alexander
II. Mittelalter
Andreas Speer (Köln)
Lectio physica. Anmerkungen zur Timaios-Rezeption im Mittelalter
Theo Kobusch (Bonn)
Der Timaios in Chartres
Edouard Jeauneau (Paris)
Du désordre à l'ordre (Timée 30 A)
Alexander Fidora (Frankfurt/M)
Die Ursachenlehre des Isaak von Stella im Anschluss and Platons Timaios
Ada Neschke-Hentschke (Lausanne)
Die iustitia naturalis gemäss Platos Timaios in den Deutungen der Dekretisten des XII. Jahrhunderts. Ein Beitrag zur Archäologie der Menschenrechte
Paul Edward Dutton (Burnady)
Holding women in common. A particular Platonic problem for the twelfth century
Henryk Anzulewicz (Bonn)
Die Timaios-Rezeption bei Albertus Magnus
III. Renaissance/Frühe Neuzeit
Thomas Leinkauf (Münster)
Aspekte und Perspektiven der Präsenz des Timaios in Renaissance und Früher Neuzeit
James Hankins (Harvard)
Plato's psychogony in the later Renaissance: changing attitudes to the christianization of pagan philosophy
Mischa Von Perger (Neusäss)
Paolo Benis Timaios-Kommentar - eine christliche Kritik an aristotelischen und neuplatonischen Interpretationen
Karin Hartbecke (Halle)
Der Timaios in der französischen Aufklärung
Indices
