Timaeus
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Timaeus is a Platonic dialogue that presents a cosmological account of the universe’s creation, structure, and order through the speech of the character Timaeus.
Observed surface forms (2)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Platonic corpus | 2 |
| Plato's Timaeus | 1 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Platonic dialogue
ⓘ
philosophical work ⓘ |
| author | Plato ⓘ |
| centralConcept |
Demiurge
ⓘ
Platonism ⓘ
surface form:
Platonic Forms
four elements ⓘ receptacle ⓘ world soul ⓘ |
| cosmologicalModel |
geocentric universe
ⓘ
living cosmos as a single animal ⓘ |
| dialogueForm | monologue by Timaeus ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Critias
ⓘ
Hermocrates ⓘ Socrates ⓘ |
| genre | philosophical dialogue ⓘ |
| influenced |
Christian theology
ⓘ
Hellenistic philosophy ⓘ Islamic philosophy ⓘ Middle Platonism ⓘ Neoplatonism ⓘ Renaissance philosophy ⓘ medieval cosmology ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Timaeus of Locri ⓘ |
| openingContext | follow-up to the Republic’s ideal city ⓘ |
| period | 4th century BCE ⓘ |
| philosophicalTheme |
mathematical structure of reality
ⓘ
relationship between reason and necessity ⓘ status of likely stories ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | Platonism ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Critias
ⓘ
Parmenides ⓘ Republic ⓘ Sophists ⓘ
surface form:
Sophist
|
| setting | Athens ⓘ |
| structure |
account of the human body
ⓘ
account of the world soul ⓘ cosmological myth ⓘ prologue with Socrates ⓘ |
| subject |
cosmology
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creation of the universe ⓘ divine craftsman ⓘ elements and geometrical atoms ⓘ nature of the physical world ⓘ order of the universe ⓘ soul of the world ⓘ structure of the cosmos ⓘ teleology ⓘ time and eternity ⓘ |
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Plato's Timaeus
subject surface form:
Ion (dialogue)
this entity surface form:
Platonic corpus