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7 results for "platonists"

1. Plato, Timaeus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •platonists, detachment from the academy Found in books: Wardy and Warren (2018) 187

28c. δʼ αἰσθητά, δόξῃ περιληπτὰ μετʼ αἰσθήσεως, γιγνόμενα καὶ γεννητὰ ἐφάνη. τῷ δʼ αὖ γενομένῳ φαμὲν ὑπʼ αἰτίου τινὸς ἀνάγκην εἶναι γενέσθαι. ΤΙ. τὸν μὲν οὖν ποιητὴν καὶ πατέρα τοῦδε τοῦ παντὸς εὑρεῖν τε ἔργον καὶ εὑρόντα εἰς πάντας ἀδύνατον λέγειν· τόδε δʼ οὖν πάλιν ἐπισκεπτέον περὶ αὐτοῦ, πρὸς πότερον τῶν παραδειγμάτων ὁ τεκταινόμενος αὐτὸν

28c. and things sensible, being apprehensible by opinion with the aid of sensation, come into existence, as we saw, and are generated. And that which has come into existence must necessarily, as we say, have come into existence by reason of some Cause. Tim. Now to discover the Maker and Father of this Universe were a task indeed; and having discovered Him, to declare Him unto all men were a thing impossible. However, let us return and inquire further concerning the Cosmos,—after which of the Models did its Architect construct it?

2. Seneca The Younger, Natural Questions, 7.32.2 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •platonists, detachment from the academy Found in books: Wardy and Warren (2018) 201

3. Plutarch, Against Colotes, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •platonists, detachment from the academy Found in books: Wardy and Warren (2018) 186

4. Plutarch, On The E At Delphi, 387 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •platonists, detachment from the academy Found in books: Wardy and Warren (2018) 186

5. Apuleius, Florida, 15.26 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •platonists, detachment from the academy Found in books: Wardy and Warren (2018) 186

6. Alcinous, Handbook of Platonism, 27.1 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •platonists, detachment from the academy Found in books: Wardy and Warren (2018) 187

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