KHÔRA AND THE SENSES OF NECESSITY IN PLATO'S TIMAEUS
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https://doi.org/10.7443/problemata.v16i2.71854Keywords:
khôra, necessity, demiurge, TimaeusAbstract
In the dialogue Timaeus, Plato remodels the theory of ideas to include the study of the natural world - the origin of the world and of man, and its developments. In the second part of the dialogue, we come across the explanation of a cause that is secondary to that of the intellect, which, despite neglecting conformity to ends, structures the world. It is also at this point in the text that a third genre is introduced, namely khôra. In this article, we seek to explain the co-implications between necessary cause and khôra, since, although they are not synonymous, both constitute the counter-part of the rationality of the world. Rather than opposing the theory of ideas, necessity and khôra, each in their own way, would be essential to the foundation of a hypothesis as restrictive as that of ideas.
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