What is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek?
• Numenius of Apamea • Note: The late antique Jewish philosophers considered Plato and Moses, thus Judaism, in concord. Christians inherited this idea and actively learnt Greek philosophers to develop their theoretical thinkings. • Amicus Plato — amicus Aristoteles — magis amica veritas • Translation: Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth. • Isaac Newton, “Quaestiones Quaedam Philosophicae” [Certain Philosophical Questions] (c. 1664) • The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. • Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929), Pt. II, ch. 1, sec. 1 • With regard to this question modern physics takes a definite stand against the materialism of Democritus and for Plato and the Pythagoreans. The elementary particles are certainly not eternal and indestructible units of matter, they can actually be transformed into each other. … The el
