Your remarks about "smoothness" at Timaeus 33b and Proclus' commentary on the passage sent me down a fascinating rabbit hole of reflection—pun intended—on the significance of this concept in Plato (usually denoted by leios, it seems). It comes up more often than one would expect in his corpus.
Your remarks about "smoothness" at Timaeus 33b and Proclus' commentary on the passage sent me down a fascinating rabbit hole of reflection—pun intended—on the significance of this concept in Plato (usually denoted by leios, it seems). It comes up more often than one would expect in his corpus.
Cool, looking forward to the write up!
I've been thinking about writing something on Hephaestus, this might be a nice way to get into it.