1 Ars est philosophia vitae University of Chełm. 2011. Poland Cosmology of Plato Kiyokazu Nakatomi Abstract An ancient Greek intuited nothingness as chaos, too. According to Greek myths, the beginning of the world was chaos that appeared before the creation of all things. The original meaning is opening one’ s mouth wide, giving a big yawn (khainein) and the empty space that is opening one’ s mouth, dark and bottomless. Therefore chaos is nothingness as lack of light and order. An ancient Greek intuited nothingness that is a gigantic and weird abyss and called it chaos. Greek myths, philosophy and civilization stared at nothingness. As I mentioned in my essay (1) , the principle of nothingness functions in ancient Greece, also same as in Chinese philosophy, Buddhism and the Bible. Greek myths that started from nothingness, chaos bore Greek philosophy. Plato inquired the truth of the universe. Then he faced nothingness, chaos. He could not describe and explain the universe at a stretch. First he omitted chaos procedurally, after that he gave the order to the world with mathematics, geometry through the Demiurgos. It is not the real god in history like YHWH but the imaginary god by Plato. By the procedure, the stars were decorated on the sky, ‘Cosmos’ was created. The meaning of cosmos is decoration and order of a natural rule. Plato stood on the junction between Asian and European philosophies. Ⅰ. Junction between Asian and European philosophies The Cosmology of Plato is written in “Timaeus” (2) . In that, he argued the beginning of cosmos and before the condition of creation. Before the creation, time did not exist. Time depends upon the rule of calendar and movement of celestial bodies. As the calendar was made by the movement of the sun or the moon, before the creation, there was not time. The idea of this time is nearly the notion of ‘world time’ (Weltzeit) by Martin Heidegger (3) . Before the creation, there is nothingness. According to modern physics and the quantum theory, it is famous that the universe was created from nothingness. The meaning of nothingness is the condition of irregular movement of minute particles. It is like chaos. Plato intuited chaos and nothingness. He described it as follows: