The book opens with a brief dialog between Socrates, Timaeus, Hermocrates, and Critias, which swiftly retrogrades into a long monologue by Timaeus himself, during which time Socrates sits quietly and listens.

Timaeus, from Locri, Italy, is a fictional character and his monologue is in fact Plato's le

1) Da, Atlantida. Kritija se seća detinjst(a)va. (59)

2) Kosmos je najlepši od svega što je postalo (68), a Tvorac je dobar, sve postoji postoji da bi ličilo njemu samom i kosmos je živo biće obdareno dušom i umom. (70)

3) Noć i dan su stvoreni da bi postojala neka vidljiva mera za odnos sporosti i br

The universe and souls and our bodies and geometry.

Socrates and Science
15 December 2018 – Perth

This book is famous for all the wrong reasons, and it basically has something to do with a city that for some reason Jason Moma seems to have a very strong connection to. Yet, while this is generally known as the Atlantis dialogue, in reality it isn’t, th

The sources for the myth of Atlantis are two: Plato's dialogs Timaeus and Critias, primarily the latter. That's it. The rest is much more modern invention.

Cornford's Plato books are usually detailed and excellent, albeit perhaps too detailed and technical for some readers. In this edition he did the

رسالهٔ تيمائوس، خلاصه‌ايست از جهان‌بينى افلاطون، كه حاوى بخش ابتدايى اسطوره‌اى، بخش كوچكى در فلسفه و بخش بزرگى در طبيعيات است. بخش فلسفى مخصوصاً به دليل طرح مباحثى كه بعداً توسط ارسطو تكميل شد و به صورت نظريهٔ معروف صورت و ماده درآمد اهميت دارد. بخش اسطوره‌ای بعدها توسط نوافلاطونی‌ها، گنوسی‌ها و مان

This was an intriguing account of, well, EVERYTHING. Plato is certainly a genius in uniting diverse aspects of reality together, yet although it's a dialogue, except for the very beginning, it's pretty much just a monologue from Timaeus recounting to his friends (Socrates and co.) about what a man h