Plato's Timaeus is one of the most influential and challenging works of ancient philosophy to have come down to us. Sarah Broadie's rich and compelling study proposes new interpretations of major elements of the Timaeus, including the separate Demiurge, the cosmic 'beginning', the 'second mixing', the Receptacle and the Atlantis story. Broadie shows how Plato deploys the mythic...(展开全部)

A new translation in the Focus Philosophical Library series, with notes and introduction material, glossary and apppendix.

萨利斯，宾夕法尼亚州立大学哲学教授，享誉世界的著名现象学研究专家、哲学家。研究专长为柏拉图、海德格尔、康德、黑格尔、尼采等，出版专著数十部，《现象学与回归开端》、《存在与逻各斯：柏拉图对话解读》、《聚集理性》、《界限：现象学与形而上学之终结》、《双重真理》等，仅看书名就颇有后现代哲人品质。他还有编著多种，比如晚近的《重返柏拉图文本与叩问传统：解释学与哲学史》。许多著作多次重版。他还是《现象学研究》杂志的创始主编之一。

1937. The commentary in this text is designed to guide the reader through a long and intricate argument and to explain what must remain obscure in the most faithful translation; for the Timaeus covers an immense field at the cost of compressing the thought into the smallest space. Only with some such aid can students of theology and philosophy have access to a document that has...(展开全部)

The first study in English to offer a systematic introduction to the Chinese pantheon of divinities. It challenges received wisdom about Chinese popular religion, which, until now, presented all Chinese deities as mere functionaries and bureaucrats. The essays in this volume eloquently document the existence of other metaphors that allowed Chinese gods to challenge the traditio...(展开全部)

The first study in English to offer a systematic introduction to the Chinese pantheon of divinities. It challenges received wisdom about Chinese popular religion, which, until now, presented all Chinese deities as mere functionaries and bureaucrats. The essays in this volume eloquently document the existence of other metaphors that allowed Chinese gods to challenge the traditio...(展开全部)

Tracing a central theme of Plato's Republic, G. R. F. Ferrari reconsiders in this study the nature and purpose of the comparison between the structure of society and that of the individual soul. In four chapters, Ferrari examines the personalities and social status of the brothers Glaucon and Adeimantus, Plato's notion of justice, coherence in Plato's description of the decline...(展开全部)

Tracing a central theme of Plato's Republic, G. R. F. Ferrari reconsiders in this study the nature and purpose of the comparison between the structure of society and that of the individual soul. In four chapters, Ferrari examines the personalities and social status of the brothers Glaucon and Adeimantus, Plato's notion of justice, coherence in Plato's description of the decline...(展开全部)

This two-volume set provides an analysis of early Italian humanist thought and the Christian Renaissance. The author argues that the Italian humanists drew their inspiration more from the Church fathers than from the pagan ancients.

First published in Plato: Complete Works, Donald J. Zeyl's masterful translation of Timaeus is presented along with his 75 page introductory essay, which discusses points of contemporary interest in the Timaeus, deals at length with long-standing and current issues of interpretation, and provides a consecutive commentary on the work as a whole. Includes an analytic table of con...(展开全部)