Wasn't too hard.
Posted on 06/28/2010 8:47:04 AM PDT by decimon
A science historian at The University of Manchester has cracked “The Plato Code” – the long disputed secret messages hidden in the great philosopher’s writings.
Plato was the Einstein of Greece’s Golden Age and his work founded Western culture and science. Dr Jay Kennedy’s findings are set to revolutionise the history of the origins of Western thought.
Dr Kennedy, whose findings are published in the leading US journal Apeiron, reveals that Plato used a regular pattern of symbols, inherited from the ancient followers of Pythagoras, to give his books a musical structure. A century earlier, Pythagoras had declared that the planets and stars made an inaudible music, a ‘harmony of the spheres’. Plato imitated this hidden music in his books.
The hidden codes show that Plato anticipated the Scientific Revolution 2,000 years before Isaac Newton, discovering its most important idea – the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics. The decoded messages also open up a surprising way to unite science and religion. The awe and beauty we feel in nature, Plato says, shows that it is divine; discovering the scientific order of nature is getting closer to God. This could transform today’s culture wars between science and religion.
“Plato’s books played a major role in founding Western culture but they are mysterious and end in riddles,” Dr Kennedy, at Manchester’s Faculty of Life Sciences explains.
“In antiquity, many of his followers said the books contained hidden layers of meaning and secret codes, but this was rejected by modern scholars.
“It is a long and exciting story, but basically I cracked the code. I have shown rigorously that the books do contain codes and symbols and that unraveling them reveals the hidden philosophy of Plato.
“This is a true discovery, not simply reinterpretation.”
(Excerpt) Read more at manchester.ac.uk ...
Shadows ping.
“The price good men pay for indifference to publiuc affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
Hear, hear!
The most surprising discovery was that Plato placed the blame for Socrates being condemned to death squarely on George W. Bush.
“Plato was the Einstein of Greece’s Golden Age and his work founded Western culture and science.”
barf!
Plato: “The price good men pay for indifference to publiuc affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
How True!
for later
(Somebody had to say it!)
The author needs to do a WHOLE lot more explaining because what the professor is saying sounds like complete blarney.
"No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney."
Wasn't too hard.
An excerpt of Dr. Kennedy's detailed notes is shown below:
Shadows on a cave wall?
This sounds like something written by or about Richard Hoagland.
Nice...
Plato is the father of collectivism in the West.He is the first thinker to formulate a systematic view of reality ,with a collectivist politics as its culmination. So Plato, thanks a lump.
The cave of history.
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