Platons Timaios als Grundtext der Kosmologie in Spätantike, Mittelalter und Renaissance

The particular focus of this volume is a study of the influence of Timaeus on the development of Western cosmology in three axial periods of European culture: Late Antiquity, Middle Ages and Renaissance. In each period, the Timaeus was read in a different context and from different perspectives. During the Middle Ages, scholars were mostly interested in reconciling the rational cosmology of the Timaeus with the Christian understanding of creation. In Late Antiquity, the concordance of Plato with Aristotle was considered the most important issue, whereas in early modern times, the confrontation with the new mathematical physics offered possibilities for a fresh assessment of Plato's explanation of the cosmos. The present volume has three sections corresponding to these three periods of interpreting the Timaeus, each sectionis introduced by a synthesis of the main issues at discussion. This 'epochal' approach gives this volume its particular character.

"Platons Timaios als Grundtext der Kosmologie in Spätantike, Mittelalter und Renaissance" was edited by Thomas Leinkauf and Carlos Steel.

Carlos Steel is emeritus professor of ancient and medieval philosophy at KU Leuven and director of the “Aristoteles Latinus” project.

Yes, "Platons Timaios als Grundtext der Kosmologie in Spätantike, Mittelalter und Renaissance" is part of the "Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Series 1" series. It's book 34 in the series.

In association with The De Wulf-Mansion Centre.

About the Series

The series' focus lies primarily on the continuity and thematic transitions between ancient, medieval and renaissance thought, but also includes volumes on specific topics related to any of those periods. ‘Philosophy' is understood broadly to include metaphysics, ethics, natural philosophy, epistemology and philosophy of mind, and philosophical theology. Since the series is particularly devoted to making available Latin and Greek source texts, we welcome critical text editions as well as contributions that are based on philological scrutiny of those texts, without losing sight of their philosophical importance.

Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Series 1 aims to publish at least two volumes a year and accepts monographs as well as thematically coherent edited volumes in English (without excluding the possibility of French, German, or Italian contributions to edited volumes). Manuscripts should be 80.000 to 120.000 words in length.

Readership

Researchers and graduate students in ancient, medieval and renaissance philosophy, in classics and in history.

Editorial Coordinator

Russell Friedman, KU Leuven, Belgium

Editorial Board

Pieter Beullens, KU Leuven, Belgium
Lisa Devriese, KU Leuven, Belgium
Pieter d'Hoine, KU Leuven, Belgium
Jan Opsomer, KU Leuven, Belgium
Jenny Pelletier, KU Leuven, Belgium
Andrea Robiglio, KU Leuven, Belgium
Carlos Steel, KU Leuven, Belgium
Gerd Van Riel, KU Leuven, Belgium

Advisory Board

Brad Inwood, Yale Universityo, USA
Jill Kraye, The Warburg Institute, London, United Kingdom
John Marenbon, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Lodi Nauta, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Timothy Noone (†) , The Catholic University of America, USA
Robert Pasnau, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Martin Pickavé, University of Toronto, Canada,
Pasquale Porro, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Geert Roskam, KU Leuven, Belgium

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Links & Resources

Thomas Leinkauf - Carlos Steel
Preface

Thomas Leinkauf
Vorwort

I. Spätantike

Franco Ferrari (Salerno)
Interpretare il Timeo

Christoph Helmig (Leuven)
Die Weltentstehung des Timaios - zum kosmologischen Hintergrund von Plutarchs De sera numinis vindicta 550 D-E

Walter Mesch (Heidelberg)
Plotins Deutung der platonischen Weltseele. Zur antiken Rezeptionsgeschichte von Timaios 35 A

Jan Opsomer (Köln)
A craftsman and his handmaiden. Demiurgy according to PLotinus

Alain Lernould (Lille)
En quoi la physique du Timée est-elle encore selon Proclus un 'eikos logos'?

Carlos Steel (Leuven)
Proclus' defence of the Timaeus against Aristotle's abjections. A reconstruction of a lost polemical treatise

Guy Guldentops (Leuven)
Plato's Timaeus in Simplicius' In de caelo. A confrontation with Alexander

II. Mittelalter

Andreas Speer (Köln)
Lectio physica. Anmerkungen zur Timaios-Rezeption im Mittelalter

Theo Kobusch (Bonn)
Der Timaios in Chartres

Edouard Jeauneau (Paris)
Du désordre à l'ordre (Timée 30 A)

Alexander Fidora (Frankfurt/M)
Die Ursachenlehre des Isaak von Stella im Anschluss and Platons Timaios

Ada Neschke-Hentschke (Lausanne)
Die iustitia naturalis gemäss Platos Timaios in den Deutungen der Dekretisten des XII. Jahrhunderts. Ein Beitrag zur Archäologie der Menschenrechte

Paul Edward Dutton (Burnady)
Holding women in common. A particular Platonic problem for the twelfth century

Henryk Anzulewicz (Bonn)
Die Timaios-Rezeption bei Albertus Magnus

III. Renaissance/Frühe Neuzeit

Thomas Leinkauf (Münster)
Aspekte und Perspektiven der Präsenz des Timaios in Renaissance und Früher Neuzeit

James Hankins (Harvard)
Plato's psychogony in the later Renaissance: changing attitudes to the christianization of pagan philosophy

Mischa Von Perger (Neusäss)
Paolo Benis Timaios-Kommentar - eine christliche Kritik an aristotelischen und neuplatonischen Interpretationen

Karin Hartbecke (Halle)
Der Timaios in der französischen Aufklärung

Indices