Optical Metaphors and Plato’s Natural Philosophy
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. “av...
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Novosibirsk State University Press
2015-01-01
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| Series: | SCHOLE |
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| Online Access: | http://www.nsu.ru/classics/schole/9/9-1-kulik.pdf |
| Summary: | 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 |
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| ISSN: | 1995-4328 1995-4336 |