Dialogue

  1 Intro|        the writings of Plato the Timaeus is the most obscure and
  2 Intro|           The influence with the Timaeus has exercised upon posterity
  3 Intro|       modern commentators on the Timaeus falling into the absurdities
  4 Intro|       the tendency to regard the Timaeus as the centre of his system.
  5 Intro|       would have assigned to the Timaeus. We observe, first of all,
  6 Intro|          true, however, that the Timaeus is by no means confined
  7 Intro|      Plato himself to regard the Timaeus, not as the centre or inmost
  8 Intro|    similar uncertainty about the Timaeus; in the first part he scales
  9 Intro|   philosophy are included in the Timaeus. It is a composite or eclectic
 10 Intro|          discrepancy between the Timaeus and the other dialogues
 11 Intro|          ministered to him.’ The Timaeus is cast in a more theological
 12 Intro|        The style and plan of the Timaeus differ greatly from that
 13 Intro|        sort of clumsiness in the Timaeus of Plato which characterizes
 14 Intro|       descriptive portion of the Timaeus retains traces of the first
 15 Intro|         the opening discourse of Timaeus may be compared with the
 16 Intro|          the illustration of the Timaeus I propose to divide this
 17 Intro|      theology and physics of the Timaeus, including the soul of the
 18 Intro|   Section 1.~Socrates begins the Timaeus with a summary of the Republic.
 19 Intro|         therefore to you I turn, Timaeus, citizen of Locris, who
 20 Intro|        to Socrates.’ ‘I will, if Timaeus approves.’ ‘I approve.’
 21 Intro|        our entertainment; first, Timaeus, who is a natural philosopher,
 22 Intro|         entertained; and do you, Timaeus, offer up a prayer and begin.’~
 23 Intro|          up a prayer and begin.’~TIMAEUS: All men who have any right
 24 Intro|    further.~SOCRATES: Excellent, Timaeus, I like your manner of approaching
 25 Intro| approaching the subject—proceed.~TIMAEUS: Why did the Creator make
 26 Intro|      explaining this part of the Timaeus—the natural order of thought
 27 Intro|      more explicitly than in the Timaeus, not as a single act, but
 28 Intro|        According to Plato in the Timaeus, God took of the same and
 29 Intro|    dialogue by another; e.g. the Timaeus by the Parmenides or Phaedrus
 30 Intro|   plurality and variation in the Timaeus, has nothing in common with
 31 Intro|         thought derived from the Timaeus, but apparently unconscious
 32 Intro|        physical doctrines of the Timaeus may be summed up as follows: (
 33 Intro|    regarded, the universe of the Timaeus is a soul, governed by mind,
 34 Intro|          of Plato’s words in the Timaeus any more meaning than to
 35 Intro|        himself terms them in the Timaeus, although in the Laws he
 36 Intro|        understood (Greek) in the Timaeus to mean ‘revolving.’ For
 37 Intro|         are so indistinct in the Timaeus and so figurative in the
 38 Intro|          physical causes. In the Timaeus, as well as in the Laws,
 39 Intro|       pain are attributed in the Timaeus to the suddenness of our
 40 Intro|   apparent in the physics of the Timaeus, or in ancient physics generally,
 41 Intro|      without the soul, so in the Timaeus he strongly asserts the
 42 Intro|          the speculations of the Timaeus. We should consider not
 43 Intro|        originally appears in the Timaeus, has likewise survived to
 44 Intro|     notion which is found in the Timaeus, is the feebleness of the
 45 Intro|       never experimented: in the Timaeus Plato seems to have thought
 46 Intro|   notions we seem to find in the Timaeus some more precise approximations
 47 Intro|           A further study of the Timaeus suggests some after-thoughts
 48 Intro|           a) the relation of the Timaeus to the other dialogues of
 49 Intro|           c) the morality of the Timaeus:—~(a) The Timaeus is more
 50 Intro|         of the Timaeus:—~(a) The Timaeus is more imaginative and
 51 Intro|         is put into the mouth of Timaeus, a Pythagorean philosopher,
 52 Intro|       fill up the lacunae of the Timaeus by the help of the Republic
 53 Intro|       the inconsistencies of the Timaeus, or to endeavour to fill
 54 Intro|         light is thrown upon the Timaeus by a comparison of the previous
 55 Intro|        connected by Plato in the Timaeus, but in accordance with
 56 Intro|     though the physiology of the Timaeus is partly borrowed from
 57 Intro|          planets reappear in the Timaeus. It is probable that among
 58 Intro|           the interstices of the Timaeus may also be compared with
 59 Intro|         a similarity between the Timaeus and the fragments of Philolaus,
 60 Intro|   writers. They remind us of the Timaeus, as well as of the Phaedrus
 61 Intro|          of Philolaus and of the Timaeus, do not correspond...We
 62 Intro|        but little light upon the Timaeus, and that their resemblance
 63 Intro|       the hesitating tone of the Timaeus, he confesses in his later
 64 Intro|       that his philosophy in the Timaeus returns at last to a worship
 65 Intro|        It is this element in the Timaeus, no less than its affinity
 66 Intro|      dialogues of Plato.~(b) The Timaeus contains an assertion perhaps
 67 Intro|         of the first part of the Timaeus. It is true that of a chaos
 68 Intro|   reconcile the narrative of the Timaeus with the Mosaic account
 69 Intro|           c) The morality of the Timaeus is singular, and it is difficult
 70 Intro|      interposition; while in the Timaeus the supreme God commissions
 71 Intro|   hastily said that Plato in the Timaeus regarded all ‘vices and
 72 Intro| supported by physical facts.~The Timaeus also contains an anticipation
 73 Intro|          same. The ethics of the Timaeus may be summed up in the
 74 Intro|      writers, in criticizing the Timaeus of Plato, in pointing out
 75 Intro|          of his reasons. But the Timaeus still remains the greatest
 76 Intro|           One more aspect of the Timaeus remains to be considered—
 77 Intro|         the great discovery.~The Timaeus of Plato, like the Protagoras
 78 Intro|    Deorum, he also refers to the Timaeus, which, speaking in the
 79 Intro|     commentary of Proclus on the Timaeus is a wonderful monument
 80 Intro|     commentary of Proclus on the Timaeus.~A very different account
 81 Intro|         the short work entitled ‘Timaeus Locrus,’ which is a brief
 82 Intro|        but clear analysis of the Timaeus of Plato, omitting the introduction
 83 Intro|       exceed a fifth part of the Timaeus. It is written in the Doric
 84 Intro|        meaning and spirit of the Timaeus.~>From the garden of the
 85 Intro|           From the garden of the Timaeus, as from the other dialogues
 86 Intro|       the leading thought in the Timaeus, just as the IDEA of Good
 87 Timae|                                  TIMAEUS~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE:
 88 Timae|     DIALOGUE: Socrates, Critias, Timaeus, Hermocrates.~SOCRATES:
 89 Timae|        three; but where, my dear Timaeus, is the fourth of those
 90 Timae|          my entertainers to-day?~TIMAEUS: He has been taken ill,
 91 Timae|    others must supply his place.~TIMAEUS: Certainly, and we will
 92 Timae|         I required you to speak?~TIMAEUS: We remember some of them,
 93 Timae|       likely to be most perfect.~TIMAEUS: Yes, Socrates; and what
 94 Timae|          defenders of the State?~TIMAEUS: Yes.~SOCRATES: And when
 95 Timae|      came across them in battle.~TIMAEUS: Exactly.~SOCRATES: We said,
 96 Timae|       fierce with their enemies.~TIMAEUS: Certainly.~SOCRATES: And
 97 Timae|      which were proper for them?~TIMAEUS: Very true.~SOCRATES: And
 98 Timae|        to be their sole pursuit.~TIMAEUS: That was also said.~SOCRATES:
 99 Timae|          in their ordinary life.~TIMAEUS: That, again, was as you
100 Timae|      children and grandchildren.~TIMAEUS: Yes, and the proposal is
101 Timae|        be attributed to the lot?~TIMAEUS: I remember.~SOCRATES: And
102 Timae|     places of those who came up?~TIMAEUS: True.~SOCRATES: Then have
103 Timae|     there anything more, my dear Timaeus, which has been omitted?~
104 Timae|          which has been omitted?~TIMAEUS: Nothing, Socrates; it was
105 Timae|          and philosophy. Here is Timaeus, of Locris in Italy, a city
106 Timae|         And we too, Socrates, as Timaeus says, will not be wanting
107 Timae|         not.~CRITIAS: I will, if Timaeus, who is our other partner,
108 Timae|         other partner, approves.~TIMAEUS: I quite approve.~CRITIAS:
109 Timae|           Our intention is, that Timaeus, who is the most of an astronomer
110 Timae|        feast of reason. And now, Timaeus, you, I suppose, should
111 Timae|      duly calling upon the Gods.~TIMAEUS: All men, Socrates, who
112 Timae|    further.~SOCRATES: Excellent, Timaeus; and we will do precisely
113 Timae|        to proceed to the strain?~TIMAEUS: Let me tell you then why