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- 1Readers revive debate over souls in Plato's Timaeus●I'm reading the Zeyl translation of the Timeaus, a Plato Dialogue and the introduction opens with a intro to all the deb
A reader of Donald Zeyl's English translation of Plato's Timaeus highlights how the introduction lays out the longstanding scholarly disputes around the dialogue, including the question of the 'generated soul'. The issue hinges on a tension with the Phaedrus, where Plato describes souls as uncreated and immortal, while the Timaeus appears to describe the soul as generated. The tension continues to puzzle students and scholars of ancient philosophy.