In this article, I try to propose some reflections about the nature and status of the intelligible in the Timaeus, particularly with respect to its features of a properly being and above all vital reality. The attribution of “life” and “vitality” to the intelligible certainly has an analogical character, that is, it depends on the consideration of the sensible: since the cosmos is a sensible living being and is a copy of an intelligible model, then the intelligible model must be configured as an intelligible living being. Now, to be “living”, for a sensible reality, means to have a soul that animates a body, that is a soul which is embodied; but this seems to apply only in the case of the sensible. What does it mean, then, and what does it entail, to be “living” for an intelligible reality? Some interpretative hypotheses on this point are examined here and a possible overall explanation is suggested.

Panteles zōion e pantelōs on: vita, anima e movimento intellegibile nel Timeo (e nel Sofista) / Fronterotta, Francesco. - (2021), pp. 49-69. - BRILL'S PLATO STUDIES SERIES. [10.1163/9789004437081_004].

Panteles zōion e pantelōs on: vita, anima e movimento intellegibile nel Timeo (e nel Sofista)

Francesco Fronterotta
2021

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In this article, I try to propose some reflections about the nature and status of the intelligible in the Timaeus, particularly with respect to its features of a properly being and above all vital reality. The attribution of “life” and “vitality” to the intelligible certainly has an analogical character, that is, it depends on the consideration of the sensible: since the cosmos is a sensible living being and is a copy of an intelligible model, then the intelligible model must be configured as an intelligible living being. Now, to be “living”, for a sensible reality, means to have a soul that animates a body, that is a soul which is embodied; but this seems to apply only in the case of the sensible. What does it mean, then, and what does it entail, to be “living” for an intelligible reality? Some interpretative hypotheses on this point are examined here and a possible overall explanation is suggested.
2021
Plato’s Timaeus. Proceedings of the Tenth Symposium Platonicum Pragense
978-90-04-43606-0
Plato; Timaeus; Sophist; life; being; soul; mouvement
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Panteles zōion e pantelōs on: vita, anima e movimento intellegibile nel Timeo (e nel Sofista) / Fronterotta, Francesco. - (2021), pp. 49-69. - BRILL'S PLATO STUDIES SERIES. [10.1163/9789004437081_004].
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