OPTICAL METAPHORS AND PLATO’S NATURAL PHILOSOPHY Cover Image

ОПТИЧЕСКИЕ МЕТАФОРЫ И НАТУРФИЛОСОФСКИЕ ИЗЫСКАНИЯ ПЛАТОНА
OPTICAL METAPHORS AND PLATO’S NATURAL PHILOSOPHY

Author(s): Sergey Kulikov
Subject(s): Cultural history
Published by: Новосибирский государственный университет
Keywords: Plato, Timaeus, natural philosophy, Demiurge, Universe, visible, invisible

Summary/Abstract: The article defends the thesis that interpreting Plato’s natural philosophy it is useful to take the terms horatos and aoratos in two distinct meanings: “observable” and “unobservable” (i. e. “present” or “absent”, “assumed” or “not assumed” by the observer), and “visible” and “invisible” (i. e. “available” or “non-available” in the process of seeing). This approach helps to perceive new sides of Plato’s ideas, implicitly present in the “Timaeus”, which allows interpreting it in both anthropomorphic and anti-anthropomorphic senses

  • Issue Year: IX/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 81-92
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Russian