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Pablo Miranda Quevedo

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Secretaría Académica, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (FFyL)

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

Robinson, T. M. "Platón, Einstein y el triunfo de la imaginitividad cosmológica." Theoría: Revista del Colegio de Filosofía 6 (1998): 87-98. || 1665-6415 || http://hdl.handle.net/10391/2364

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Robinson, T. M.

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Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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Abstract: This article argues the following five claims: 1. Plato’s description of the origins of cosmos in the Timaeus is not a myth, nor something unlikely: when he called it an eikos mythos or eikos logos, he meant a likely or trustworthy account on this very subject. 2. Among the details in this account, the following are prominent and surprising: a) the world was fashioned in time, in that precise point that was the beginning of time; b) several kinds of duration can be distinguished in cosmology (mainly eternity, sempiternity, perpetuity and time); and c) space is an entity characterised by movement and tension. 3. In the Statesman, Plato repeats much the same thing, adding this time the strange notion that the universe’s circular movement is periodically reversed. 4. In spite of the important differences in detail, there is striking similarity between Plato’s account of the origins of the world and the explanation adopted by much of modern cosmology. 5. What Plato shares with so many instances of recent thought is here termed "cosmological imaginativity". A first section of the paper deals exclusively with the Timaeus. Claims 1 and 2a are supported by a revision of the meanings of mythos and logos, followed by brief reference and discussion of the argument at Timaeus 27d, leading to the conclusion that Plato affirms that the ever-changing world has indeed had a beggining in time. Claim 2b describes five different types of duration, corresponding to Forms, the Demiurge, Space, the [empirical] world and its contents, physical objects. The second section is concerned with the myth in the Statesman, discussing it as a paralel and describing its peculiar turn to the Timaeus’ cosmology and cosmogony, a complex spheric and dynamic model. After digressing into some important ideas in modern cosmology, touching especially on affinities of some of Einstein’s ideas with of Plato’s own, the paper closes with a discussion of cosmological imaginativity, oriented to recover and recognize fully Plato’s greatness as a cosmologist.

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Filosofía || Theoría. Revista del Colegio de Filosofía || Timeo || tiempo || eternidad || logos || mito

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1998 || 2012-05-14T17:45:34Z || 2012-05-14T17:45:34Z || 1998

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Theoría. Revista del Colegio de Filosofía. Núm. 6 julio de 1998. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, México 1998.

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