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Kant's revolution in methodology limited metaphysics to the conditions of possible experience. Since, following Hume, analysis the method of discovery in early modern physics could no longer ground itself in sense or in God's constituting reason a new arche, origin and principle, was required, which Kant found in the synthesis of the productive imagination, the common root of sensibility and understanding. Charles Bigger argues that this imaginative between recapitulates the ancient Gaia myth which, as used by Plato in the Timaeus, offers a way into this originary arche. Since it depends on...

Plato's chora as developed in the Timaeus is a creative matrix in which things arise and stand out in response to the lure of the Good. Chora is paired with the Good, its polar opposite; both are "beyond being" and the metaphors hitherto thought to disclose the transcendent. They underlie Plato's distinction of a procreative gap between being and becoming. The chiasmus between the Good and chora makes possible their mutual participation in one another. This gap makes possible both phenomenological and cosmological interpretations of Plato. Metaphor is restricted to beings as they appear in...