M. R. Wright (Editor)
Reason and Necessity: Essays on Plato's "Timaeus".
London/Swansea: Duckworth/Classical Press of Wales, 2000. 0715630571 xvi/191 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is bound in maroon cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Price sticker is affixed to upper outside corner of front flyleaf. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
""Plato's "Timaeus" contains a powerful and influential myth of the construction of the universe by a divine craftsman. A god imposes reason on necessity to bring order from a primeval 'receptacle' of disordered matter. There results the 'child' that is the cosmos - a copy of an eternally-existing perfect model. Here eight new essays, from a distinguished international cast, explore aspects of this challenging work: the principles of the mythical narrative, how the world soul and human body are formed, implications for illness, mental and physical, the importance of music, and harmonious proportion. Later developments are also treated: Aristotle's theory of generation, the commentary of Proclus and elements of modern evolutionary theory."