Open AccessEl Timeo de Platón y otras cosmologías de la antigüedad anteriores a san Agustín
Author(s) -
Bruno A. Do Espirito Santo
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
mayéutica/mayéutica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2603-9729
pISSN - 0210-2900
DOI - 10.5840/mayeutica2020461013
Subject(s) - exposition (narrative) , cicero , philosophy , doctrine , humanities , classics , theology , art , literature
The article provides a detailed exposition of the essential points of Platonic cosmology collected in the Timaeus, to later see its continuity or discontinuity in other cosmologies such as the one exposed within Cicero’s Somnium Scipionis. Special importance has Philo of Alexandria’s thought and particularly the doctrine of Plotinus, from which the main ideas are exposed. Presenting their relationship with Christian thought.