Timaeus
Plato
Appears in 17 ideas
Science
Metaphysics
- TimeWhat is time: a feature of the world, a form of the mind, or the measure of motion?
- EternityIs eternity merely time without end, or a wholly different mode of being, existence outside time altogether?
- MatterWhat is matter, the stuff of the physical world, and how does it relate to form, mind, and change?
- ChangeWhat is change, and how can something become what it was not?
- Necessity and ContingencyMust whatever is be as it is, or could things be otherwise?
- ChanceIs chance a real feature of the world, or only a name for our ignorance of causes?
- AngelAre there pure intelligences, bodiless minds between God and man, and what would their existence mean for the order of being?
- SpaceIs space a thing in itself, a property of bodies, or a form of the mind?
- WorldWhat is the universe, and how does it stand in relation to God and to man?
- Same and OtherWhat makes things the same, and what makes them different?
- QualityAre the qualities we perceive in things real properties of nature, or projections of the mind?