PLATO AND QUANTUM PHYSICS

Abstract

Philosophy of nature, as a theological system of knowledge on what φύσις is, wasdeveloped within Plato’s Timaeus. It starts with ontology that paves the way towards mathematicalcosmology and cosmogony, then to physics and zoogony, anatomy and empirical psychology,noetics, or logic of mind, which is demonstrated trough the work of mind and necessity, frombeing and becoming, creating of cosmos, planets, matter and living beings, to rational soul thatunderstands that the soul of the world makes cosmos a living being. Therefore, Timaeus andParmenides were the actual philosophycal inspiration of the arguments on the origin and natureof elementary particles in modern theories of quantum physics.