Plato's astounding achievement was to take the body-soul dualism of Pythagoras, combine it with the new concept of pure abstraction, and infuse all this with the mathematical sense of divine order in nature. By weaving together these different strands of thought, he would create a radically new, comprehensive cosmology that would serve as the underpinning for more than two thousand years of theological, philosophical, and mathematical speculation in the Western world.
PlATO cosmology
