... ecological crisis and its life threatening character not only from the so-called 'Reports of the Club of Rome' and from other theoretical and empirical investigations, but in particular from Plato's theorem of the 'plenitude' of a cosmic order. Inasmuch as this order, in which man and nature receive their place and meaning, represent a living and a creative wholeness, man is confronted with ... our existential engagement with nature and a denial of any anthropocentric thinking and egoistic acting. From these three perspectives, all sharing Plato's principle of a cosmic plenitude, we emp...

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... opposing arguments and explanations. In rationalism, mathematics is considered the ideal form of knowledge and reason is the ultimate authority. Rationalists tend to see mathematics as the paradigm of knowledge. Plato believed that Mathematics is a kind of model for the rest of knowledge. (The easiest way to think of the Forms is to think of such mathematical objects as the perfect ... ...

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