The Methodological Analysis of the Plato’s Doctrine About Space and the Person in Dialogue “Timaeus”

Journal Title: Philosophy and Cosmology - Year 2016, Vol 17, Issue

Abstract

The paper focus is on the main methodological sets of Plato which substantially influenced his philosophic and scientific thinking, expressed in the dialogue ‘Timaeus’, as well as defined the specific of his doctrine in relation to the cosmos and human being: the principle of substantial perfection, deterministic approach, a tendency to analyze the empiric material with the means of mathematical objects. Plato’s understanding of the cosmos and human body as lively, holistic constructions enabled their fruitful systematic studies. Shaping his teaching on the soul and the body of human being, Plato endeavored to solve one of the most complicated tasks: to establish the first theoretical, mathematised system, and under such conditions to fill the pure language of observations with ideal constructs. The author shows that one of the most important scientific achievements of the Athenian philosopher was the use of the thinking constructions of geometrical triangles, which made possible creating of the theoretical models of living organisms, with explaining their nature and functioning that was one among the first in the history of science. Moreover Plato was the first in the history of science who filled with the theoretical contents not the first elements only, but all the examined material objects.

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Viacheslav Meshkov

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Viacheslav Meshkov (2016). The Methodological Analysis of the Plato’s Doctrine About Space and the Person in Dialogue “Timaeus”. Philosophy and Cosmology, 17(), 200-209. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-244702