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Plato's Natural Philosophy and Metaphysics
In Sean D. Kirkland & Eric Sanday (eds.), A Companion to Ancient Philosophy. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press. pp. 212–231 (2018)
Abstract
This chapter contains sections titled: Going Beyond Nature in Order to Explain it Technē, epistēmē and alēthēs doxa Mathematics, pure and applied Observation and Experimental Verification Bibliography.Author's Profile
Plato's natural philosophy and metaphysics Plato's position on the knowledge of nature, subject of divergent evaluations Plato's, going beyond nature in explaining the phenomenon Plato's approach to the knowledge of sensible things, model of access in the technai pure mathematics, the soul tearing itself from the sensible, as in Greek practice essential role of mathematics, between the sensible and the intelligible geometry and higher education, reaching results abstract and universal mathematical relations, as used in music, being at the level of the world soul mechanical movements of the sensible world, the soul displaying a mathematical structure heavenly bodies' and regularity, leading beings to regard them as divine
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