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Timaeus by Plato — WisdomDeck honest review

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Timaeus

by Plato

Plato's cosmology: the craftsman god, the world soul, geometric elements, Atlantis. Strange, influential for two thousand years.

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The cosmos is ordered.
Mathematics underlies matter.
Myth carries philosophy.

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Plato's cosmos.

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