The Life of the City: the Timaeus-Critias
The Life of the City: the Timaeus-Critias
This chapter explains the cosmology of the world according to Plato's Timaeus-Critias. Plato's cosmological account explains how the world was made, telling that a craftsman deity made the body and soul of the world, using Forms as an intelligible basis, and that all living beings then followed suit. The chapter states that the world is a living being, the most perfect among all physical creation, and adds that Plato argued that humanity must live in accordance with the world in order to achieve its perfection.
Keywords: cosmology, Timaeus-Critias, Plato, humanity, perfection, Forms
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