A work on the Timaeus that takes Plato's Cosmology as starting point.
Francis M. Cornford Livres
Cornford était un classiciste qui a exploré les pensées et les mythes sous-jacents de la Grèce classique. S'écartant initialement d'une approche philologique traditionnelle des études classiques, il a cherché à explorer les fondements philosophiques plus profonds et les racines mythologiques de la pensée occidentale. Son œuvre a souvent examiné la relation entre la religion et la philosophie, éclairant le développement de la spéculation antique. Cornford était également connu pour ses observations satiriques vives sur l'administration universitaire et son soutien aux idées rationalistes et progressistes dans le milieu universitaire.
In this book, F.M. Cornford explains why the life and work of Socrates stand out as marking a turning-point in the history of thought. He shows how Socrates revolutionized the concept of philosophy, converting it from the study of Nature to the study of the human soul, the meaning of right and wrong, and the ends for which we ought to live. This is, in fact, the story of the whole creative period of Greek philosophy - the Ionian nature of science before Socrates, Socrates himself, and his chief followers, Plato and his pupil Aristotle. It tells of the different contributions each made, and shows how within three centuries the Greek tradition grew to maturity and the fullness of intellectual power.