School of Athens (Raphael)

Here is Plato, in the center, pointing to the sky the same attitude of John the Baptist, in the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci. Plato speaks to Aristotle, who is indicating with his hand to the ground, in an attitude which means: only what is palpably is true (the later doctrine of Thomas, The Unbeliever, and of the entire Western empiricist thinking). Plato seems to be saying: "Get out of Flatland!" Aristotle seems to say: "Remain in Flatland!" When Socrates (puzzling, left, in polemics) asks what is true, good or beautiful he is not urges us to walk with the head in the clouds, but get up with the mind at the highest point is possible to understand more deeply the ground under our feet. The idea is just to sit on the ground with two feet, not four.

The great tradition of European philosophy, from Plato to Kant, means just that: to sit with feet on the ground, but raise your eyes from dust and to look at things in a broader perspective! That is the Philosophy: a brief look at the horizon of our own being, for us not being lost in the jungle of our own beingness. Plato sees the world in a synthetic perspective (birds view). Aristotle sees the world in an analytical perspective (moles view). More details on this distinction in: http://www.scribd.com/doc/16019284/Marcel-Chelba-Last-ideea-of-ConstantinNoica-and-endless-road-of-philosophy-Kantinomus http://www.scribd.com/doc/9834224/Marcel-Chelba-Ultima-idee-a-luiConstantin-Noica-i-drumul-fr-de-sfarit-al-filosofiei http://www.trilulilu.ro/kantinomus/617c9ee2df87da http://www.scribd.com/doc/10039681/Marcel-Chelba-Tetralogia-kantian-Vol-IIntroducere-Critic-Despre-posibilitatea-Metafizicii-ca-tiin-in-perspectivafilosofiei-critice-kant http://www.scribd.com/doc/91632125/Marcel-Chelba-The-Consolation-ofPhilosophy-Comment-on-an-article-by-Lawrence-M-Krauss-The-Consolation-ofPhilosophy http://www.scribd.com/doc/17474184/Marcel-Chelba-Kantian-tetralogy-Vol-ICritical-Introduction-About-the-possibility-of-Metaphysics-as-Science-in-thecritical-philosophy-of-Kant http://www.scribd.com/doc/16640613/Marcel-Chelba-The-Antinomy-of-PureReason-and-Logical-Paradoxes-Kantinomus http://www.scribd.com/doc/124119046/Marcel-Chelba-Comments-on-an-articleby-David-Tong-in-Scientific-Amertican-%E2%80%9CIs-Quantum-RealityAnalog-after-All-%E2%80%9D