Description Table of Contents Description Cosmos as Art Object consists of fifteen studies of various aspects of Plato’s cosmological writings, published between 1979 and 2000, and is aimed at various readerships. Specialized pieces address such topics as the concepts of eternity, sempiternity and everlastingness, and the question of what is involved in claims that the universe could be said to have had a beginning in time that was the first point of time. Less specialized pieces, for a broader readership, include the essays “Plato, Einstein, and the Concept of Cosmological Imaginativeness,” and “Aristotle, the Timaeus, and Contemporary Cosmology.” In addition to the topic of cosmology, the book discusses various features of Platos theology, biology, political theory, and theory of gender-differentiation. Go to Top Table of Contents Introduction and Acknowledgements The Argument of Tim. 27 d ff. (1979) Understanding the Timaeus (1986) The Timaeus on Types of Duration (1987) The Relative Dating of Timaeus and Phaedrus (1992) The World as Art-Object: Science and the Real in Plato’s Timaeus (1993) Plato’s Cosmo-Theology and Some Early Greek Fathers (1993) Aristotle, the Timaeus, and Contemporary Cosmology (1994) Two Key Concepts in Plato’s Cosmology (1994) Forms, Demiurge and World Soul in the Politicus (1995) The Self-Expression of the Real: Logos in Heraclitus, Plato, and The Author of the Fourth Gospel (1996) Plato on Metempsychosis and the Concept of Appropriate Degradation (1997) Plato, Einstein, and the Triumph of Cosmological Imaginativeness (1998) Gender-Differentiation and Platonic Political Theory (1998) Educating the Cosmic Citizen: Some Thoughts on Plato’s Timaeus (2000) Works of Art in Plato (2000) General Index Index Locorum Go to Top