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  • Chapter 14 - Source and Sources (2)

  • from Part Three
  • Gretchen Reydams-Schils, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
  • Book:
    Calcidius on Plato's <I>Timaeus</I>
    Published online:
    18 September 2020
    Print publication:
    24 September 2020, pp 172-190

  • Summary

    This chapter argues against a commonly held assumption that Porphyry is (one of) Calcidius' (main) source(s), by comparing the fragments of the former's commentary on the Timaeus to Calcidius' approach, and analyzing more closely views attributed to Porphyry on the human soul, the transmigration of human souls into animals, matter, and Form.

  • Conclusion

  • from Part Three
  • Gretchen Reydams-Schils, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
  • Book:
    Calcidius on Plato's <I>Timaeus</I>
    Published online:
    18 September 2020
    Print publication:
    24 September 2020, pp 216-220

  • Summary

    The conclusion argues for an earlier date (first half of the fourth century CE) than the editor of the text Waszink assumed, and locates Calcidius in the strand of the tradition called Middle Platonism.It also states that Calcidius' commentary does not present a Christian worldview, though he makes a few concessions to a Christian audience, addressed in the second person.

Calcidius on Plato's Timaeus
  • Greek Philosophy, Latin Reception, and Christian Contexts
  • Gretchen Reydams-Schils
  • Published online:
    18 September 2020
    Print publication:
    24 September 2020
  • This is the first study to assess in its entirety the fourth-century Latin commentary on Plato's Timaeus by the otherwise unknown Calcidius, also addressing features of his Latin translation. The first part examines the authorial voice of the commentator and the overall purpose of the work; the second part provides an overview of the key themes; and the third part reassesses the commentary's relation to Stoicism, Aristotle, potential sources, and the Christian tradition. This commentary was one of the main channels through which the legacy of Plato and Greek philosophy was passed on to the Christian Latin West. The text, which also establishes a connection between Plato's cosmology and Genesis, thus represents a distinctive cultural encounter between the Greek and the Roman philosophical traditions, and between non-Christian and Christian currents of thought.
Relative Change

Relative Change
  • Matthew Duncombe
  • Published online:
    17 September 2020
    Print publication:
    08 October 2020
  • A relative change occurs when some item changes a relation. This Element examines how Plato, Aristotle, Stoics and Sextus Empiricus approached relative change. Relative change is puzzling because the following three propositions each seem true but cannot be true together: (1) No relative changes are intrinsic changes; (2) Only intrinsic changes are proper changes; (3) Some relative changes are proper changes. Plato's Theaetetus and Phaedo property relative change. I argue that these dialogues assume relative changes to be intrinsic changes, so denying (1). Aristotle responds differently, by denying (3) that relative change is proper change. The Stoics claimed that some non-intrinsic changes are changes (denying (2)). Finally, I discuss Sextus' argument that relative change shows that there are no relatives at all.

Wittgenstein and the Social Sciences
  • Action, Ideology and Justice
  • Robert Vinten
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    14 August 2020
    Print publication:
    27 July 2020
  • In Wittgenstein and the Social Sciences, Robert Vinten takes a fresh look at the relationship between Wittgenstein's philosophy and the social sciences. He argues that although social sciences are quite different to the natural sciences, they are nonetheless properly called 'sciences'. The book looks in detail at whether Wittgenstein can be claimed by conservatives, liberals, or socialists as their own. Wittgenstein's philosophical remarks and remarks about politics and culture are taken into account in deciding where to locate Wittgenstein in relation to various ideologies. In the final part of the book, Vinten considers how Wittgenstein's philosophy can be of use in resolving or dissolving problems in the social sciences. Along the way, he critically assesses work from Perry Anderson, Terry Eagleton, Richard Rorty, and Chantal Mouffe in the light of Wittgenstein's philosophical oeuvre. The book makes a compelling examination of how Wittgenstein's work remains as relevant as ever to thinking about our cultural and political situation.

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