Time in the Platonic account of creation: the Timaeus
Keywords:
Ancient Cosmology, Time, Dualism, TeleologyAbstract
The cosmology presented in the Timaeus has the twofold purpose of criticizing Greek naturalism and of making the visible world compatible with the Theory of Forms. It does this by reformulating a series of traditional concepts. By adopting the dualistic assumption that the changing sensible world is generated from the eternal, perfect and unchangeable model of intelligible Forms, the Platonic story presents a harmony of opposed but coexistent worlds where the teleologism of Intelligence dominates in one and the mechanicism of the “wandering cause” dominates in the other.
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