PHIL249 Study Guide - Sui Generis, Demiurge, Cosmological Argument
7 Mar 2014
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Aristotle quotes this more than anything else by plato. How does plato construe time in the timeaus. The forms are selfsame (never changing, sui generis), augustine replaces forms with god: god is selfsame and ever-present eternally. Timeaus contradicts the assumption that augustine is a complete platonist. The point of the republic is "what is justice?" Timeaus is supposed to be the conversation had the day after the republic. socrates is tired from yesterday. he turns it over to timeaus to feast us on the nature of justice. The cosmos results. it is a circle. everything in it is said to be ordered according to what is best. in there you get this notion of a moving-image-of-eternity what that means who knows. contrast that to augustine. God just makes the world out of nothing. This is the distinctive judaic notion that creation is ex nihilo. Nothing comes nothing, which conflicts with augustine and the judaic tradition.
