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Timaeus

Timaeus

Plato · 360 BC

4 chapters · 79 pages · Original text

Public domain · Project Gutenberg

Chapters

The Proem — Socrates, Critias, and the Prelude to Cosmology

~22 min · 11 pages

The Works of Reason — The Demiurge and the World-Soul

~40 min · 20 pages

The Works of Necessity — Elements, Geometry, and Sensation

~48 min · 23 pages

The Human Frame — Soul, Body, Diseases, and the Creation of Life

~52 min · 25 pages

About this text

First published in 1748, this work represents Hume's mature empiricist philosophy — a reworking of ideas from his earlier Treatise of Human Nature.

Hume argues that all knowledge derives from sensory experience and that reason alone cannot establish matters of fact.

Text sourced from Project Gutenberg (public domain).

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