Reason and Necessity: Essays on Plato's Timaeus. Wright, M. R. The Classical Press of Wales, London, December, 2000.
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Plato's Timaeus contains a powerful and influential myth, of the construction of the universe by a divine craftsman. A god imposes reason on necessity, to bring order from a primeval 'receptacle' of disordered matter. There results the 'child' that is the cosmos - a copy of an eternally-existing perfect model. Here eight new essays from a distinguished international cast, explore aspects of this challenging work: the principles of the mythical narrative, how the world soul and human body are formed, implications for illness - mental and physical, the importance of music and harmonious proportion. Later developments are also treated: Aristotle's theory of generation, the commentary of Proclus and elements of modern evolutionary theory.
@book{wright_reason_2000,
	address = {London},
	title = {Reason and {Necessity}: {Essays} on {Plato}'s {Timaeus}},
	isbn = {978-0-7156-3057-0},
	shorttitle = {Reason and {Necessity}},
	abstract = {Plato's Timaeus contains a powerful and influential myth, of the construction of the universe by a divine craftsman. A god imposes reason on necessity, to bring order from a primeval 'receptacle' of disordered matter. There results the 'child' that is the cosmos - a copy of an eternally-existing perfect model. Here eight new essays from a distinguished international cast, explore aspects of this challenging work: the principles of the mythical narrative, how the world soul and human body are formed, implications for illness - mental and physical, the importance of music and harmonious proportion. Later developments are also treated: Aristotle's theory of generation, the commentary of Proclus and elements of modern evolutionary theory.},
	language = {English},
	publisher = {The Classical Press of Wales},
	author = {Wright, M. R.},
	month = dec,
	year = {2000},
}

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