Abstract

CANNARSA, Marilísa. Ordo ab chao. Cosmogonia e materia nel Timeo. Educação e Filosofia [online]. 2009, vol.23, n.46, pp.263-308. ISSN 1982-596X.

Based on the Maurizio Migliori's interpretation of Plato's dialogues - according to whom the philosopher someway "plays" with the reader of his texts - , this article intend to analyze one of the most "terrific tricks" of his written corpus: the passage about the matter into the cosmological myth of the Timaeus. Through a lexical screening of some of the terms implicated on that "trick", we will describe the activity of the Demiourgos, who accomplish the passage from chaos to the order through harmonic mixtures of a matter that becomes according to his craftsmanship. Besides, we'll dedicate special attention to the difference between chora ("space") and metaleptikôn ("matter") and, according to the screening's results, we'll try to demonstrate that the progression from a chaotic first matter to a geometrically structured of sensible bodies becomes a "chaos-to-order" reading key to the possible status and collocation of metaleptikôn and chora in a unit framework of the cosmogonic process.

Keywords : Cosmogony; Measure; Mixture; Matter; Space.

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