Time and Light in Plato's Timaeus

In Daniel Vázquez & Alberto Ross (eds.), Time and Cosmology in Plato and the Platonic Tradition. Brill. pp. 134-155 (2022)
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This chapter is about the movement of sunlight and the concept of time in Timaeus’ cosmology in Plato’s Timaeus. It argues for three connected theses: (i) that light is a grounding principle of his account; (ii) that Timaeus puts forward a proposal for the calculation of a cosmic calendar, i.e., the counting of time according to the movement of sunlight throughout the whole world; and (iii) that he understands time (chronos) as the movement of all heavenly bodies relative to the motion of light streaming from the sun.

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