Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Pittacus, Plato and Paul Thagard

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27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology
If the Earth is spherical and in the centre, it is kept in place by universal symmetry, not by force [Plato]
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
If the prime origin is destroyed, it will not come into being again out of anything [Plato]
Movement is transmitted through everything, and it must have started with self-generated motion [Plato]
If the cosmos is an object of perception then it must be continually changing [Plato]