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The Great Year: From the Platonic Ideal to Astronomical Reality

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: In the dialogues of his maturity, Plato ventures into the description of the physical world, a domain he had previously considered a mere faded copy of the intelligible world of the Ideas. The Timaeus, in particular, stands as his cosmological masterpiece, a work that, after a brief prologue, unfolds as a monumental doctrinaire discourse delivered by the figure of Timaeus of Locri. At the center of this narrative is the Demiurge, a divine artificer who does not create the universe ex nihilo, from nothing, but rather imposes an intelligent order on a chaotic and pre-existing matter.

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17224562

Author: Paduano, Ivan

Institution: Sapienza University of Rome

Language: English

Topic: Classical Philosophy and Thought

Subfield: Philosophy

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7083671037

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