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To continue my journey examining the mind, also called consciousness, the soul or spirit, I turn to the ancient Greeks, specifically Plato’s Timaeus. In the Timaeus, Plato weaves a “likely story” of the origins of the universe and the things within it, from the stars to the elements and finally to the human being. While the Timaeus is not as well-read today as some of the other Platonic dialogues, it was the only text of Plato that had been translated during the Middle Ages into Latin, right up to the twelfth century, making it influential in the development of astronomy and also Christian doctrine. It is also among the few works of Plato where he presents a metaphysics since his primary concern is the ethical and in that way, the social, though he must have felt that he needs a metaphysics to undergird what he proposes to be the ideal ethics and politics.
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