Prep Questions Set#12 Due: Tuesday, 10/22
Read Timaeus 27e-38e; 48b-58c (CCR 652-61; 671-82)
1. This dialogue has an interesting dramatic structure. Describe it, and comment on the significance of the way in which Timaeus frames his account (recall the distinctions drawn in Rep. V).
2. We examined three arguments in the Parmenides (these arguments are objections to the doctrine of Forms; see them on the Parmenides webpage), which ends in aporia. What, if any, raw materials do you see in the Timaeus that might be worked up into responses to these objections?
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PQ#1 PQ#2 PQ#3 PQ#4 PQ#5 PQ#6 PQ#7 PQ#8 PQ#9 PQ#10 PQ#11