Понятие ΑΙΩΝ в космологии Платона

Историко-философский ежегодник. 2014. С. 29–52.

Pleshkov A. A.

According to the widely spread opinion among historians of philosophy, Plato makes a philosophical conceptualization of word αἰών, using it in the sense of “eternity” and implying infinity and timelessness. However, a careful analysis of Plato’s cosmological ideas in the context of early usage of αἰών gives a basis for rejection of this traditional point of view. The paper presents an attempt to interpret the concept relying on the most reliable meaning of the word – “Life”, extended to the sense of the fullness of being. Thus, our approach seems not only hermeneutically adequate, but gives a new perspective on the central questions of the Plato’s cosmology.

Keywords: Платон, время, time, айон, вечность, полнота бытия-времени, «Тимей», Plato, “Timaeus”, aion, eternity, fullness of being-and-time

Publication based on the results of: ­­Institutional Structures and Academic Communities: Factors Related to Developing Knowledge in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (2013)