Intelligible Forms, Mathematics, and the Soul’s Circles : an Interpretation of Tim. 37a-c

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FRANCESCO FRONTEROTTA, « Intelligible Forms, Mathematics, and the Soul’s Circles : an Interpretation of Tim. 37a-c », Études platoniciennes, ID : 10.4000/etudesplatoniciennes.906


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In this article I propose a solution of a problem that seems to me fundamental for understanding the Timaeus and Plato’s onto-cosmological perspective in general. I shall be trying to give an account of the sense of the claim as to the mathematical character attributed to the relation between the sensible and the intelligible. I shall try to make explicit what in Plato’s text remains mostly implicit, and to give an answer to the following question : how is the order of intelligible ideas, whi...

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