-plato
any one have any ideas on what this means?
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It's really a loaded statement.
We can look upwards and see that there are other things in space other than ourselves. If we cannot physically leave this earth we can with our imaginations; with our spirits. We leave this world with the dream of possibility, and our natural inquisitiveness propels progress/technology/etc.
Hope and imagination cause change. We eventually make happen what we decide is possible.
It basically meaning, the quest of the unknown makes us want to discover it even more.
For instance, the concept of Astromony- it is vast and in a million years it still will have things no one would ever discover. That thirst for knowledge keeps the human mind thinking.
Well good luck!
It means that Space is very interesting and it inspires us to learn more about it because it is so mysterious and beautiful.
That's my interpretation anyway!
-Trekkie Girl/ Future Astronaut
Yes. Takes us to the stars peace and bright
I think it means that looking up at the stars makes us wonder about what could be up there.
It means now what it meant in Plato's time: Astronomy is inspirational.
yeah love this quote
anyway
astronomy is like the study of the stars, and you have to look up to see the stars. The worlds are kinda what is "up there" cause no one really knows. It's kinda a play on words cause your literally looking up, and also look up at your soul...and then you going from one world, our world, to another the astronomy world, btu your also lokoing up at all the different worlds.
sorry if that makes absolutley no sense, its kinda tough to explain.
It would help to know where in Plato's works the quotation is found. But we can speculate:
Many of the Greeks (and other ancients) thought that really true things were the ones that did not change -- say, the relationships in geometry instead of material things here in the world, which are always changing and eventually decaying and ending.
The Greeks saw the stars as unchanging, and hence closer to the real reality than material things around us. The stars appeared as if they were all the same distance away, so it seemed they were on a sphere.
Here is a quotation from a wikipedia article: "These Forms represent the essence of various objects: they are that without which, a thing would not be the kind of thing it is. For example, there are countless tables in the world but the Form of tableness is at the core, it is the essence, of all of them. Plato held that the World of Forms was separate from our own world and also the true basis of reality. Forms are, in this way, the most pure of all things. Furthermore, Plato believed that true knowledge/intelligence was the ability to grasp the world of Forms with one's mind."
Therefore, Plato might say that the apparently unchanging, eternal stars were a visible thing that acted very much like the Forms, and indeed he might say that they were a window into the World of Forms. and that is how I would interpret the quotation you asked about. I'm also sure that the wonder and awe that other answers wrote about was part of what Plato was talking about.
I'm not an expert on Plato and one can trust the wikipedia only so far and Plato's thought is more complicated than this, to take this all with a grain of salt.
It means ol' Plato probably got drunk and started talkin' sh!t to his buddies Aristotle and Socrates...you know, trying to act smarter than them...I think Socrartes said, "Neener, neener" to him and got him started...you know how insecure those Greek kids could be back then
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