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    Readers of Timaeus must seek a connection between Timaeus and Republic.

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    • 1.The opening of Timaeus refers back to Republic.
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    • 2.Such an explicit back-reference is a signal from Plato that the two works are thematically or argumentatively linked.
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    • 1.The opening of Timaeus recapitulates only a selective, distorted subset of Republic's arguments, suggesting parody or critical revision rather than endorsement.
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    • 2.Scholars like Cornford and Gill have shown Timaeus's cosmology operates within a distinct Pythagorean register that is methodologically incompatible with Republic's dialectical framework.
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    • 3.A back-reference that omits or alters key doctrines functions as a philosophical distancing device, not an invitation to harmonize the two works.
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    • 1.Dramatic back-references in Platonic dialogues frequently serve to mark a new departure, as Socrates himself signals in Phaedo when revisiting his earlier natural philosophy.
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    • 2.The interlocutors of Timaeus are not the principal voices of Republic, and Plato's reassignment of philosophical authority deliberately disrupts any straightforward doctrinal continuity.
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    There is a further reason for entertaining hypotheses about what Plato intended and believed, and not merely confining ourselves to observations about what sorts of people his characters are and what they say to each other. When we undertake a serious study of Plato, and go beyond reading just one of his works, we are inevitably confronted with the question of how we are to link the work we are currently reading with the many others that Plato composed. Admittedly, many of his dialogues make a f
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