It’s an honor that I successfully invited Plato, one of the Big Three of Greek philosophy, to Cemetery News for an interview.
Editor: Mr. Plato, you used to firmly believe that there were two realms and forms only existed in the realm of forms. Forms were incorporeal, intangible and insensible while objects in our world, which was the material realm, were imperfect replica of those forms (Lindberg 13); forms are regular geometrical shapes like triangles (Lindberg 26). Now that you’ve read some papers of Newton and Darwin, what do you think of their discoveries and the way they made them?
Plato: Newton was intelligent to introduce mathematics into physics. Having acknowledged of Kepler’s Laws which suggest planets’ orbits are elliptical, and the inverse-square law proposed by Hooke, he “calculated” the shape of the …show more content…
Regulations of nature and the universe are forms of beauty and hence, should remain eternal and changeless. A creature’s structure should be comprehended from its function. I came up with these opinions due to the limitation of what I had seen and heard. Now I realize that it is not senses that tie us down (Lindberg 14), but limited sense experiences. Darwin was lucky to have taken a five-year voyage during which he spotted numerous similar species and primitive fossils. Both Darwin and Newton succeeded in making a scientific masterpiece after struggling through an upward journey. I highly appreciate their courage and confidence of breaking the shackles, such as creationism and geocentric model of the universe, set by previous thinkers. Darwin made connections among his discoveries in two dimension: contemporary creatures in the different regions or continents and species exited in different geological time in the same regions respectively. As for Newton, he saw through objects, celestial bodies and distance, generalized the mechanism to concisely depict the motions of terrestrial and celestial
Editor: Mr. Plato, you used to firmly believe that there were two realms and forms only existed in the realm of forms. Forms were incorporeal, intangible and insensible while objects in our world, which was the material realm, were imperfect replica of those forms (Lindberg 13); forms are regular geometrical shapes like triangles (Lindberg 26). Now that you’ve read some papers of Newton and Darwin, what do you think of their discoveries and the way they made them?
Plato: Newton was intelligent to introduce mathematics into physics. Having acknowledged of Kepler’s Laws which suggest planets’ orbits are elliptical, and the inverse-square law proposed by Hooke, he “calculated” the shape of the …show more content…
Regulations of nature and the universe are forms of beauty and hence, should remain eternal and changeless. A creature’s structure should be comprehended from its function. I came up with these opinions due to the limitation of what I had seen and heard. Now I realize that it is not senses that tie us down (Lindberg 14), but limited sense experiences. Darwin was lucky to have taken a five-year voyage during which he spotted numerous similar species and primitive fossils. Both Darwin and Newton succeeded in making a scientific masterpiece after struggling through an upward journey. I highly appreciate their courage and confidence of breaking the shackles, such as creationism and geocentric model of the universe, set by previous thinkers. Darwin made connections among his discoveries in two dimension: contemporary creatures in the different regions or continents and species exited in different geological time in the same regions respectively. As for Newton, he saw through objects, celestial bodies and distance, generalized the mechanism to concisely depict the motions of terrestrial and celestial