A review by rosenectur
Timée by Plato

3.0

Another Plato book I read for a Philosophy class. After Intro to Philosophy I was invited to be in Great Books, which is an invite only discussion based Philosophy class. This book, which has the first references to Atlantis in it, is more or less about science. Explaining the way Plato/ Socrates uses logic to figure out how the universe IS. To Plato the world can be understood by reason and not always by senses. Some ideas are down right silly to modern readers, some are surprisingly insightful. My favorite is that the four elements (fire, earth, air and water) are made up of different triangles, and those triangles combine in different patterns to make up the basis of everyday matter. The "everything is made of triangles" hypothesis seems silly, but part of his writings rings of an atomic understanding or grasping.