caa a22 4500 386319782 CHVBK 20180307111621.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1988 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0068673500005071 doi S0068673500005071 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0068673500005071 Osborne Catherine St Anne's College, Oxford Topography in the Timaeus: Plato and Augustine on mankind's place in the natural world [Elektronische Daten] [Catherine Osborne] In this paper I shall be considering the relationship between the shape or structure of the world and the moral position occupied by human beings, particularly with regard to man's attitude towards and use of the natural resources of the material world he inhabits. 1. The shape of the world There are two basic spatial metaphors that we frequently use in analysing notions of value and morality: one is the scale of up and down, with high and low or top and bottom as alternative ways of referring to the same type of hierarchy; the other is the notion of a centre, the bull's eye: if we are self-centred we value ourselves more highly than other things; if we have an anthropocentric view we value humanity above other animals. Thus we usually suppose that we put whatever we value most highly (on the one set of metaphors) at ‘the centre of things' (on the other set). Copyright © The Author(s). Published online by Cambridge University Press 1988 Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Cambridge University Press 34(1988), 104-114 0068-6735 34<104 1988 34 CCJ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068673500005071 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068673500005071 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Osborne Catherine St Anne's College, Oxford NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Cambridge University Press 34(1988), 104-114 0068-6735 34<104 1988 34 CCJ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge