Plato é uma cratera de impacto lunar preenchida por lava na Lua. Seu diâmetro é de 101 km (63 mi). Foi nomeada em homenagem ao filósofo grego antigo Platão. Está localizada na margem nordeste do Mare Imbrium, na extremidade ocidental da cordilheira Montes Alpes. No mare ao sul há várias elevações coletivamente chamadas Montes Teneriffe. Ao norte fica a ampla extensão do Mare Frigoris. A leste da cratera, entre os Montes Alpes, há várias rilles coletivamente chamadas Rimae Plato.
“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”
“No one should be discouraged, Theaetetus, who can make constant progress, even though it be slow.”
“Phaedrus: Socrates, you easily make up stories of Egypt or any country you please.”
“εὖ ἂν ἔχοι ... εἰ τοιοῦτον εἴη ἡ σοφία ὥστ᾽ ἐκ τοῦ πληρεστέρου εἰς τὸ κενώτερον ῥεῖν ἡμῶν...”
“Since those who rule in the city do so because they own a lot, I suppose they're unwilling to enact laws to prevent young people who've had no discipline from spending and wasting their wealth, so that by making loans to them, secured by the young people's property, and then calling those loans in, they themselves become even richer and more honored.”
“Throughout the Middle Ages the Timaeus... shaped the scientific imagination of the West, and together with Genesis challenged medieval thinkers to fashion their own "likely story" of the world's beginnings.”
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