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Plato’s Timaeus is one of the most influential—and most difficult—cosmological texts in the history of philosophy. Neither science nor myth alone, it presents what Plato himself calls an eikōs logos: a likely, structured account of how order, life, soul, and intelligence come to dwell together in a living cosmos.
This translation offers a radically coherent rendering of the dialogue as a Structured-Narrative of cosmic creation, centered on a single guiding insight: that the universe, as Plato presents it, is bound together not by force or accident, but by Friendship—understood here as Harmonious-Bonding, the proportional unity of unlike elements into a living Whole.
Rather than modernizing Plato’s language or reducing the dialogue to technical concepts, this edition preserves and clarifies the metaphysical architecture of the original Greek. Key philosophical terms are rendered consistently through conceptual metaphors that allow the reader to follow Plato’s reasoning as it unfolds:
Structured-Narrative (logos), Life-Principle (psychē), Eternal-Maker (demiourgos), Living-Whole (kosmos), Heaven (ouranos), and Kindred/Akin (syngenes).
The result is a translation designed to be read as Plato intended: slowly, reflectively, and as a unified vision. Creation appears not as fabrication ex nihilo, but as the ordering of pre-existent necessity by intelligence; time emerges as the moving image of eternity; the human soul is revealed as kin to the revolutions of the stars; and ethical life becomes a matter of aligning oneself with the harmonious motions of the Whole.
This edition includes:
A substantial Introduction situating the dialogue as a philosophical narrative rather than a scientific treatise
A Conceptual Glossary that anchors the translation’s vocabulary and metaphysical framework
A complete, uninterrupted translation structured around the theme of Friendship as Harmonious-Bonding
Translated by Jason Kassel, PhD, this Timaeus is intended for readers who want to think with Plato rather than merely about him—students, philosophers, and general readers seeking a cosmology in which reason, beauty, and order remain inseparable.
This is not a paraphrase.
It is a philosophical reconstruction of one of Plato’s deepest works, rendered in language capable of carrying thought, proportion, and wonder together.
Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.
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