Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Mark Sainsbury, Zeno (Citium) and Plato

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27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology

2648	Things are more perfect if they have reason; nothing is more perfect than the universe, so it must have reason [Zeno of Citium]

369	If the Earth is spherical and in the centre, it is kept in place by universal symmetry, not by force [Plato]

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Since the cosmos produces what is alive and rational, it too must be alive and rational [Zeno of Citium]

309	Clearly the world is good, so its maker must have been concerned with the eternal, not with change [Plato]

27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 3. The Beginning

273	Movement is transmitted through everything, and it must have started with self-generated motion [Plato]

148	If the prime origin is destroyed, it will not come into being again out of anything [Plato]

308	If the cosmos is an object of perception then it must be continually changing [Plato]