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Readers revive debate over souls in Plato's Timaeus
Original: 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.
Why now: The apparent contradiction between Plato's accounts of the soul's origin in the Timaeus and the Phaedrus remains a genuinely contested scholarly problem.
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- I'm reading the Zeyl translation of the Timeaus, a Plato Dialogue and the introduction opens with a intro to all the debates and problems with it. One of them is the debate over the generated soul. In another Plato dialogue, the Phaedrus, he says souls are not created but are… · nagaram@gts.thinkstoomuch.net · 4
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