Dante believes that souls must return to the star that ruled their earthly passions (i.e. the lustful would return to Venus). Beatrice responds that Dante cannot take Plato’s doctrine literally, which ...

C.S. Lewis was a certain Christian but an uncertain Platonist. A comparison to his contemporary A.E. Taylor, author of a magisterial commentary on Timaeus, illuminates the debt Lewis owed the Platonic ...

At a distance of almost 2,400 years, it may seem strange to look at Plato's Timaeus as the first pop science book. But its influence on scholars and scientists down through the centuries has been ...

“I see that I shall receive in my turn a perfect and splendid feast of reason. And now, Timaeus, you, I suppose, should speak next, after duly calling upon the gods,” says Socrates to his interlocutor ...

And he bestowed on it the shape which was befitting and akin. Now for that Living Creature which is designed to embrace within itself all living creatures the fitting shape will be that which ...

Timaeus (fifth century bc) was a Pythagorean philosopher from Locri, in Magna Graecia, now southern Italy. He was also a mathematician and astronomer. Plato studied with him while he was visiting ...