On Plato's Precosmos (Ti. 52d2–53c3).
The aim of this paper is to provide a new reading of Plato's precosmos (Ti. 52d2–53c3). More specifically, I shall argue that the precosmos is populated by bodies deriving from random complexes of properties, and that this is the effect of the Receptacle's full precosmic participation in the Paradig...
| Publicado en: | Elenchos: Rivista di Studi sul Pensiero Antico Vol. 44; no. 1; pp. 45 - 65 |
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De Gruyter
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