Science historian cracks "the Plato code"

University of Manchester ^ | June 28, 2010 | Unknown

[betty boop]

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.

Alamo-Girl has suggested that mathematics is "God's copyright notice" on the universe. I think she is right. Evidently, Plato would have thought so, too.

Thanks for posting this fascinating article, decimon!

[silverleaf]

LOL!!

Plato the liberal- who knew

So the ancients were right about a code- just because you are ancient does not mean you are a superstitious myth spinner

[wildbill]

I think the original Greek is a command which translates into:

Drink more Ovaltine!

[Lmo56]

Translation: "Obama is not a natural-born citizen ..."

[Caesar Soze]

I haven’t read the paper, but if the article is a fair summary, all he discovered is that Plato (or one of his copyists) wrote happy music for the good parts of his corpus and angry music for the bad parts. That’s neat, but I’m not seeing the revolution in the history of western philosophy.

[WVNan]

Well then, if the old dude supported homosexuality he is sure to become a cultural icon once more. (do I need /s)

[BrandtMichaels]

Plato ping.

[BrandtMichaels]

Plato ping.

[jonno]

We are but shadows & dust...

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks decimon! ...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 See, and I thought the culture had bottomed out with "The Bible Code". Plato was trying to make nature conform to his own preconceived (and necessarily limited) concept of how things *should* be. And his "Republic" is a massive (and probably earliest surviving) treatise advocating totalitarian government. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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[Peanut Gallery]

There is not enough information from the dear professor.He talks about discovering Plato’s true philosophy, but does not go into any detail as to what that is and how it is different than what we already know regarding Plato.

[Rodamala]

“All we are is dust in the wind, dude”

Oh, wait, that was So Crates.

[colorado tanker]

People who are attracted to The Republic generally assume they'll be among the Philosopher-Kings.

[ThanhPhero]

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