what were some of plato's ideas about observing  and studying natural world?
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That's a large order - here is a really good source for Plato and major philosophers.  Hope this helps.
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then what are you waiting for? go to the library and read up...\n\ni'll only give you ideas of nature: plants, flowers, birds, animals, insects, mountains, trees, bushes, fungi, rivers, fish, rocks, waterfalls.
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atlantis. believed by plato to have sunk into the ocean.
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Plato thought that art is an imitation of an imitation, and thus is hopelessly far from the source of the truth. He also thought that art is powerful, and therefore dangerous.\n\nHe is also quoted as saying that "Art has no end but its own perfection."
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I am not a professor of geology, but I did TA for a Principles of Geology class, and I have a B.S. and M.S. in geology.  I would suggest EARTH Portrait of a Planet by Steve Marshak.  Of course, I'm biased because he was a professor of mine.  But I find it to be very informative and fun to read.  The students I TA'd for had this text for one of the semesters, and I didn't hear any complaints- which is rare!
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you can look over the world.\nDemis:\nhttp://www.demis.nl/home/pages/home.htm
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Well Plato did! And he is known to be the greatest thinker that ever lived. He came to the conculsion that there must be a God through pure thought
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Here you go ... much more info at the links.....\n\nAncient Greece is considered by historians to be the foundation for all cultures of Western Civilization.\n\nPtolemy was the author of several scientific treatises, three of which would be of continuing importance to later Islamic and European science.\n\nCopernicus was one of the great polymaths of the Renaissance. He was a mathematician, astronomer, jurist, physician, classical scholar, governor, administrator, diplomat, economist and soldier. \n\nGalileo Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian physicist, astronomer, and philosopher who is closely associated with the scientific revolution.  His achievements include improvements to the telescope, a variety of astronomical observations, and effective support for Copernicanism. \n\nJohannes Kepler (December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630), a key figure in the scientific revolution, was a German mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, and an early writer of science fiction stories.  He is best known for his laws of planetary motion, based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonice Mundi and the textbook Epitome of Copernican Astronomy.\n\nSir Isaac Newton, (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, and natural philosopher, regarded by many as the greatest figure in the history of science.\n\nEdwin Hubble was an American astronomer (1889-1953), who discovered that the further away a galaxy is, the faster it is moving away, which led to the conclusion that the universe is expanding.\n\nAlbert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist widely known as one of the greatest physicists of all time.  He formulated the special and general theories of relativity.
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Aristotle, compiled the first list.\n\nHear,Taste,Touch,Sight,Smell
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Since people write about what they are interested in, and since lots of people are interested in what the cosmos is like, there are plenty of books that give what people's understanding of the cosmos is like.  Take Boethius, for example.  His Consolation of Philosophy gives a picture of a universe ordered by reason eminating from God.  Dante's Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paraidiso show a universe structured by moral principles.  And so on, and so on.....
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Well, you could connect them in a few ways. One would be to study ice cores (from glaciers) to see what was in the atmosphere over time, which shows you trends in long-term weather changes. Another would be to study coastal zones and make predictions and models concerning what happens in different zones when sea levels rise due to global climate change. The imagination knows no end to what you can study!
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The field of study which attempts to describe and understand the nature of the universe in whole or part.\n\nHow did I know? I asked a scientist.
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Observing the earth and how the continents fit together like a puzzle if brought together.
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Our view of life influences everything we do. It resonates down to even how we think. For example back in Plato's day there were two main camps of thought. Plato and his objective world. The other camp was one which oonsidered humans as a part of the world intricately linked to it. Plato's arguements won out. The result was scientific advances but also a detachment from nature that made exploitation inevitable. \n\nOur very language contains our philosphy. Our deeds, how we approach life. By understanding this and by creating the path we set the core values of an entire society. So philosophy it turns out is not just an exercise in academics but actually an important study. At least would be if it were applied. \n\nI strongly recomend a book called "Zen and the art of motorcylce mechanics". If nothing else it will give you an aprpeciateion of the impact philosphers of the past have had.
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This was a belief of Socrates the great philospher.  For questions of this sort, Socrates raises a serious dilemma: how can we ever learn what we do not know? Either we already know what we are looking for, in which case we don't need to look, or we don't know what we're looking for, in which case we wouldn't recognize it if we found it. \n\nThe paradox of knowledge is that, in the most fundamental questions about our own nature and function, it seems impossible for us to learn anything. The only escape, Socrates proposed, is to acknowledge that we already know what we need to know. This is the doctrine of recollection, Plato's conviction that our most basic knowledge comes when we bring back to mind our acquaintance with eternal realities during a previous existence of the soul. \n\nThe example offered is in the discovery of an irrational number, the square root of 2. Socrates leads an uneducated boy through the sophisticated geometrical demonstration with careful questions, showing that the boy somehow already knows the correct answers on his own. All of us have had the experience (usually in mathematical contexts, Plato believed) of suddenly realizing the truth of something of which we had been unaware, and it does often feel as if we are not really discovering something entirely new but rather merely remembering something we already knew. Such experiences lend some plausibility to Plato's claim that recollection may be the source of our true opinions about the most fundamental features of reality. What is more, this doctrine provides an explanation of the effectiveness of Socratic method: the goal is not to convey new information but rather to elicit awareness of something that an individual already knows.  Hope this helps!
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Classical liberal thought
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He doesn't. The idea of a state of nature was first postulated  by Thomas Hobbes in "The Leviathan". Hobbes was writing after witnessing that violent breakdown of the existing social fabric, known as the English Civil War. For him, the state of nature possibly existed in the distant past, but not necessarily so. It may only be a hypothetical opposite to, and justification for, society. There's an adequate, but brief, explanation in wikipedia (if you like that kind of thing).\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_nature