“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 ...

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 ...

The Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes contain the Symposia to be read at the Annual Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association each year. Publisher ...

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 ...

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