How To Use Plato In A Sentence
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The reconnaissance is conducted by teams from the reconnaissance company of the airborne brigade and the reconnaissance platoon of an IFV-equipped airborne battalion or by a designated platoon of an airborne battalion.
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Plato's Academy was created around 390 B.C. and had remained in existence until the Byzantine emperor Justinian, closed its doors in 529.
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This has caused many theoreticians to adopt a philosophical approach that mirrors the ideas of Plato.
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Just getting anyone in the area to tell the platoon where the former mukhtar lived had taken three months of pleading, and after several false leads that day, the soldiers had found him.
The Coming Normalcy?
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As you might have guessed we are not talking about an all-too-human Dana Plato, Todd Bridges or Corey-of-your-choice, but a fellow member of our family Hominidae who diverged from our species 6 million years ago.
Warren Holstein: Monkey Business: Travis the Celebrity Chimpanzee Attacks!!!
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Later translated into Latin by Boethius around 500 AD, Aristotle’s influence spread throughout Syria and Islam whilst Christian Europe ignored him in favour of Plato.
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Crucially, at the heart of this construct is the Commission, comprised of appointed technocrats ruling as benign Platonic guardians, protecting the interests of all the peoples of Europe.
Democracy or stability?
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I slipped back a barrelful of years and gave him the dap we'd worked out in the platoon.
SNOWJOB
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The earliest copy of Plato's Tetralogies is dated about 1,200 years after Plato supposedly wrote the original.
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He intends to plead not guilty, according to his lawyer, Plato Cacheris, who characterized his client as emotionally distraught.
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He is one of a platoon of French intellectuals praising the game as a noble art compared with the selfish showmanship of football.
Times, Sunday Times
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We see here clearly how Thomas has appropriated Plato's thought for his own ‘existential’ (in the sense of esse) purposes.
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He mistakenly characterizes spirituality as a pallid Platonic flight from the world or some kind of interiorized religious stirrings.
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In Aegipt as Plato affirmeth, it was neuer sene rain.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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The smallest combat engineer in the security platoon, Bourgeois, 19, was constantly ribbed about being tiny.
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Plato remarks in The Republic that bad characters are volatile and interesting, whereas good characters are dull and always the same.
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We stagger round with the Platonic idea (from the Symposium) that we can love only one other person.
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In medieval terms, the Platonic approach locates music in the quadrivium, as a branch of mathematics, while the Aristotelian locates it with the practical arts of the trivium, grammar, rhetoric, and logic.
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While Buddhism is deemed nontheistic, the Vedas are regarded as polytheistic, and the Bible is monotheistic, we have seen that the cosmogonies of Vajrayana Buddhism, Vedanta, and Neoplatonic Christianity have so much in common that they could almost be regarded as varying interpretations of a single theory.
C for Confusion!
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During the 1990s, Liverpool's biggest contribution to mainstream rock culture involved dispatching platoons of terrifying feral scallies to mug people at Glastonbury.
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They took cover in a farm house but arrival of an enemy platoon made the situation hopeless.
Times, Sunday Times
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And then he did it again, leading the scratch platoon he had formed on to its objective.
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It was a set of platonic bodies: there was an octahedron and a double tetrahedron.
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One might conclude, as some did in antiquity, that Arcesilaus therefore had a hidden objective of undermining Stoic or Epicurean empiricism in favor of Platonic doctrine.
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This ambivalence over the simplicity or complexity of the discarnate soul became a point of controversy among later Platonists.
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Beyond even the highest point of this interior life, in which the contemplative feels himself to be living “in God,” [26] is that transfigured or deified life, as the Platonic mystics named it, which Ruysbroeck calls overwesen — superessential — the life of the “God-seeing man” (Book III).
The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage
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Humans are also preoccupied by fantasy & fiction of all types, even especially? knowing that it is *fiction*, we do not have to hypothesize a platonic realm to explain that...
Free Will and Behavioral Genetics, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. Plato
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There's little indication of the available range of ethical theories, from crude emotivism to Platonic realism, from McDowellian objectivism to virtue theory.
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This includes a radio operator, light and heavy machine gun operators, and at least a lieutenant or two who bark out orders for the platoon to follow.
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Plato's elements can be interconverted because of the geometric commonalities of their atoms.
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Here are some things to keep in mind when the guy you want to catch under the mistletoe is more into keeping it strictly platonic.
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To me, it is reminiscent of an old corporation dustcart, not dissimilar to the one seen in the 1971 feature film when the Dads Army platoon hitch a ride back to Walmington-On-Sea from their manoeuvres (thank you Anoneumouse).
And now... the European Army
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Otherwise, the picture we get of the Academy is of a centre for discussions, with no indication that students went there to learn Platonic doctrines.
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And, of course, the Romans already had the example of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum.
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Plato is definitely easier to understand than Aristotle – at least the one work by Aristotle that I read.
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He makes us see and hear with him the tens of thousands of stone cutters and the ring of their tools squaring the "setts"; and then one platoon after another stepping forward and laying down its row of stones followed by rank after rank of men with the paviours 'rammers, which rise and fall at the sweep of the band-master's rods, keeping time in a stately music as they advance; the continuous falling and crashing of the trees as other thousands of hands ply the axes along the lines, that creep, slowly, but visibly, on through the
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
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Information they gathered was sent back to platoon headquarters by runner and radioed from the village to Company headquarters.
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Plato had made the bold suggestion that there might be a single axiom system to embrace all knowledge.
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When Arthur Young wished to ascertain the relative proportions of cultivated and uncultivated land in France, he cut up a map of the country, and weighed them one against the other; but the platometer would have helped him to a more satisfactory conclusion.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 434 Volume 17, New Series, April 24, 1852
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(Ratio and intellectus recall in some ways dianoia and noesis in Plato's famous image of the divided line.)
Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa]
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Character is simply habit long continued. Plato
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Platonism accomplishes the intellectual love of God through the mathematical mediation; Christianity renders this intellectual love flesh in the incarnation.
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After more than 20 years in uniform, I am convinced that half the battle is letting your squads and platoons fight.
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In like manner the commander of Fort Casimir, when he found his martial spirit waxing too hot within him, would sally forth into the fields and lay about him most lustily with his sabre; decapitating cabbages by platoons; hewing down lofty sunflowers, which he termed gigantic Swedes; and if, perchance, he espied a colony of big-bellied pumpkins quietly basking in the sun, "Ah! caitiff Yankees!" would he roar, "have I caught ye at last?
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
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He made over 40 parachute jumps while serving as a rifle platoon leader, battalion adjutant, and commander of a raider platoon.
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Plato would certainly have found the structure of C60 - an expanded dodecahedron, which is about as close to a sphere as you can get - to be an unusually beautiful body.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996 - Presentation Speech
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After looking at me blankly for a few minutes (I was preparing my declaration of Platonic love), she suddenly began crying into her hands.
THE DICE MAN
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Molly, an English bulldog, graduated recruit training with Platoon 2103, Company G, in October, then took up duties as the depot mascot.
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Their platoon indeed rescued many valuable pieces.
Christianity Today
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The painting was not an accurate representation of the Falls but a kind of Platonic ideal.
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But at least it's better than formalism, logicism, intuitionism, constructivism or Platonism.
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German philosophy after Kant could be summarized as hankering after the noumena, and thus as more “Platonic” than Kant.
Matthew Yglesias » Time For a Blogger Ethics Panel
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He deployed his command in local platoon and company bases spread throughout the country's key urban areas.
Times, Sunday Times
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A typical task organization for route clearance would be two ATGMs with a section of infantry, including the rifle platoon sergeant and forward observer, and a sapper squad in the engineer squad vehicle under the MGS platoon leader.
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No philosopher would jettison Plato just because it's old fashioned, nor would anyone mock the old fogy Whitman.
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When a platoon of American troops in WWII were making their way across Europe, they came across a bombed-out monastery with these words graffitied on its basement wall.
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As a cross of philosophy and divine Platosophy, Plato s doctrine of reminiscence has theological form.
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The shape of the Tower represents the gate of the eternal present which rests in balance between the future and the past between the contemplator and the contemplated.
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The old neoplatonic shadow of what Emerson in ‘The Transcendentalist’ calls an ‘optative mood,’ reconciling textual particular and idealist consciousness, is not as far away here as one might initially imagine.
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Plato in his Symposium discusses only the kind of love that is found in men, which has its final cause in the lover but not in the beloved (terminato ne l'amante ma non ne l'amato), for this kind mainly is called love, since that which ends in the loved one is called friendship and benevolence (ché quel che si termina ne l'amato si chiama amicizia e benivolenzia).
Judah Abrabanel
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As a cross of philosophy and divine Platosophy, Plato s doctrine of reminiscence has theological form.
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His platoon, attacking heavily fortified and strategically located hostile emplacements, had been stopped by intense fire from a large bunker containing several firing posts.
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Plato believed that atoms have the shapes of regular polyhedra: cubes, tetrahedrons, octahedrons, and so on.
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Plotinus' theology further promotes the relationship of Plato' ideas and gods, meanwhile, it evades the Person of God mentioned by Augustine.
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And the key to this drastic and fateful change in the history of western philosophy from a consideration of the being of things (Sein des Seienden) to a consideration of the "thingliness" of things (Seiendheit des Seienden) is, at least in the case of Plato, to be found in the second meaning of being which Heidegger found among the Greeks, the aspect of being as appearance.
Enowning
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Mulla Sadra inherited a variety of theories ranging from Platonic recollection (anamnesis) and division to Peripatetic syllogistics, definitions and axiomatic science.
Mulla Sadra
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Contributing to the Neo-Platonism of Plotinus were — besides Plato (read very selectively) and the Platonist and Neo-Pythagorean commentators on his thought — a constructively critical consideration of Aristotle and his Peripatetic commentators and an influence, deep at some points, of Stoic ideas which Plotinus 'conscious and frequently expressed hostility to Stoic corporealism could not overcome.
NEO-PLATONISM
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The ablutions, cookhouse and accommodation are checked for cleanliness, these jobs being a major headache in a platoon location.
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Platonism began the West's pursuit of abstract truth from the times of ancient Greece.
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Manager Davey Lopes plans to platoon Matt Stairs and Alex Ochoa in right field.
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Mathematicians, most of whom act as Platonists, believe that mathematics is an actual ideal non-physical realm that lies behind our familiar reality of objects.
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For the Platonists, the soul is the human being; the intellect is eternal, and pre-exists and survives the body.
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In you also, my dear Paul, this century appears to have perfected astronomy, and in Florence it has recalled the platonic teaching from darkness into light.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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While in Plato there is the foreshadowing of the truth that the goal of moral endeavour lies in godlikeness, with Aristotle the goal is confined to this life and is conceived simply as the earthly well-being of the moral subject.
Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics
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Despite frequent inconsistencies and misapprehensions, the work was a principal transmitter of ancient science and Neoplatonic thought to the western Middle Ages.
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Zac talked in a monotonous drone about the hidden treasures of Egypt, the esoteric wisdom that Aristotle stole, or was it Plato, and then the Egyptians forgot everything.
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With gunfire cracking all around, the soldier seized his commander's radio and relayed what had happened to other members of the platoon.
Times, Sunday Times
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Epicurus rejected the existence of Platonic forms and an immaterial soul, and he said that the gods have no influence on our lives.
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Inspired by platonism, the modern culture justifies the mathematics and rational knowledge with the aesthetic character of the logic.
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It is really a sort of sublimated and apotheosized "argot," an "argot" of a kind of platonic archetypal drawing-room; such a drawing-room as has never existed perhaps, but to which all drawing-rooms or salons, if you will, of elegant conversation, perpetually approximate.
Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
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Plato, for example, thought that training athletes for the games was of little relevance for the real world of fighting.
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My friend was an English major back in the day, and the ceremony was filled with extended readings — some in Middle English — from First Samuel and First Corinthians, Plato, Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde and William Meredith, as well as traditional and popular music from when the two of them were young.
A wedding like any other
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He is ready to proceed with the implementation of the President's directive about nonsegregation down to the platoon level, and proposes to initiate this in the three cavalry regiments and the AA battalion up north, but does not want to do it if it is premature. "[
Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965
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He's finally healthy, and he hits left-handers well enough to keep from being platooned.
MLB Fantasy: American League lineups
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Platonists was Henry More, one of whose hooks Addison quoted four essays back (in No. 86), and who died only four and twenty years before these essays were written, after a long contest in prose and verse, against besotting or obnubilating the soul with the 'foul steam of earthly life.'
Spectator, June 13, 1711
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Whether discussing Lao Zhi from the East or Plato from the West, the ultimate layer of human reasoning seems to always hint at the balance and permanence of the universe.
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Plato sees democracy as imposing stifling bureaucracy on gifted individuals.
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It is absolutely requisite that the complete person he contemplator of things which have a being, and the practiser of those thing which are decent; and this easily appears by the following instances.
Essays and Miscellanies
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Oh, you who have read Plato attentively, that is to say, seven or eight fantastical dreams hidden in some garret in Europe, if ever these questions reach you,
A Philosophical Dictionary
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A grey drizzle filled the valley, obliterated the mountains and separated the receding regiment of trees into saw-edged platoons.
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Last year, when my parents decided it would be a good idea to call community mental health and the cops due to my insane behaviour Plato still got fed.
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The MGS platoon, task organized with an infantry squad, a sapper squad, and an MEV, are tasked to standby with the first sergeant for CASEVAC.
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The 1943 company had three infantry platoons, each with three rifle squads, a light machine gun squad, and a 60 mm mortar squad.
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In 1462, Ficino decorated the Medici villa at Careggi (home to the Platonic Academy) with astrological signs,10 an ornamental scheme also found in frescoes of the Sala dei Mesi at the Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara (1470) ,11 and in ceilings of the Medici palace at Florence (1456), whose lapis lazuli and gold-leaf ornament offered admirers a sparkling abstraction of the starry sky. 12 We can imagine a similar heavenly apparition in the gold and sapphire ceiling of the Urbino studiolo, especially when illuminated by a setting sun or candlelight.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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In the freedom of this rather unalluring garb she entered into relations Platonic, fraternal, or tempestuously passionate with perhaps the most distinguished series of friends and lovers that ever fluttered about one flame.
The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
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If you are the medical platoon leader for an infantry or armor battalion task force, you are expected to have what you need to treat patients.
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Stoicism indeed seems to fall back into the materialism that I prevailed before Plato and Aristotle; but the ethical dualism which dominated the mood of the Stoic philosophers, did not in the long run tolerate the materialistic physics; it sought and found help in the metaphysical dualism of the Platonists, and at the same time reconciled itself to the popular religion by means of allegorism, that is, it formed a new theology.
History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)
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Besides my amusement in actually relating a current writing to Plato, I think the column astutely voices a deficiency of student engagement in classes.
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Returning now to Plato's conception of community understood through the terms macrocosm and microcosm, what can the nursing world situation reveal to us of community?
Humanistic Nursing
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I love you too, Pollyanna but our relationship must remain platonic as my anus is already losing its elasticity from 30 years in banking. morgaine7
AM I CUTE?
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More on Ascot Tina Gaudoin on Style: A Flashy, Positively Ghastly Spectacle A Week at the Races This devotion to the Platonic ideal of the horse's head, rather than to representations of, for example, individual racehorses, readily distinguishes his sculptures from the rather pedestrian, often slightly kitsch, bronzes so often found decorating the houses of "horsey" people.
A Magnificent Obsession
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It can be practised by units as small as a company or platoon, or as part of a major programme to protect an industrial site or air base.
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Pleasure is the bait of sin. Plato
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A certain mystique attached to the word as a result of analogies often drawn between the creative activity of the artist and the creation of the world by the deity or by a Platonic demiurge in accordance with Ideas or prototypes.
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The icosahedron is another of the five regular, or Platonic, bodies having all their sides, angles, and planes similar and equal.
Amusements in Mathematics
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. Plato
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Other sets of synonyms include, in addition to the aforementioned haruspicy and haruspication: caloptromancy and enoptromancy; spodomancy and tephramancy (or tephromancy); alectryomancy and alectoromancy; astromancy and sideromancy; crystallomancy and gastromancy; hieromancy and hieroscopy; necromancy and sciomancy; ornithomancy and orniscopy; and scapulimancy and omoplatoscopy.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 2
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This was true despite contact with the enemy, which for the independent tank battalions oc - curred as early as 29 December 1942, when the Afrika Rorps mauled a platoon of Company A, 70th Tank Battalion, north - east of Pichon, Tunisia.
Steel Victory
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The author, then pursuing his comment upon Plato, observes, that "one of these manias may suffice (especially that which belongs to love) to lead back the soul to its first divinity and happiness; but that there is an intimate union with them all; and that the ordinary progress through which the soul ascends is, primarily, through the musical; next, through the telestic or mystic; thirdly, through the prophetic; and lastly, through the enthusiasm of love.
Zanoni
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Our self-mocking domestic equivalent to America's invincible locomotive is the platoon of lawnmowers that shaved the Astroturf in the stadium during the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympics.
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They are currently locked in animated detailed discussion with their platoon commander, an experienced infantry captain.
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The Soul, like the Intelligence, is a unified existent, in spite of its dual capacity as contemplator and actor.
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You have to navigate through minefields of homemade fudge, baked hams, office peanut brittle, holiday eggnog, hot toddies, smoked cheese logs and platoons of armed and dangerous gingerbread men.
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One interpretation has it that Plato took numbers to be ratios of geometric magnitudes.
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See Maria Pernis's analysis of this inscription and the term "Candidus" in "Ficino's Platonism and the Court of Urbino," 256 – 67. back
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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The importance of Neoplatonic ideas in renaissance visual representation of and intervention in the physical world has been well documented.
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For a pagan Platonist its particularity seemed scandalously incompatible with divine immutability and with a universal operation of providence in the cosmos as a whole.
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Paracelsi de vita longa, out of some Platonists, will have the air to be as full of them as snow falling in the skies, and that they may be seen, and withal sets down the means how men may see them; Si irreverberatus oculis sole splendente versus caelum continuaverint obtutus, &c., [1134] and saith moreover he tried it, praemissorum feci experimentum, and it was true, that the Platonists said.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Our relationship is totally platonic," she stated.
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A pyramid is not a Platonic solid because not all the sides are the same, but by sticking an inverted pyramid on the bottom you get an octahedron, which is.
HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID
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This particular effort, however, more closely resembles Plato's canonized critique in the Phaedrus of the new technology called writing.
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Political philosophers from Plato to Hobbes saw society organized primarily through what might be called legitimated threat.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Dixon platooned as if he were coaching a football team, and none of the Americans was playing much longer than 20 minutes in any game.
Underdawgs
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In summary, the Platonic scenario is dominantly inductive deductive, while the Aristotelian scenario is dominantly inductive - abductive.
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The line of troops went onward, and more small units and platoons of swordsmen and spearmen moved in for the battle.
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But what is seen is a shape or form, and Plato's pupil, Aristotle, preferred the term eidos, probably because he could not accept his master's theory of ideas.
IDEA
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Socrates'conversations as reported by Plato were full of a shrewd humor.
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Those pioneer photographers thought that photography, through the interaction of sunlight on light-sensitive silver salts, might capture the Platonic essence of things.
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For them to even be having a platonic relationship is highly inappropriate and we are very concerned.
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Socrates, Plato and Aristotle propounded theories about the nature of existence and how human beings should live.
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IT is just after dawn at Sandhurst, and a platoon of officer cadets in full dress uniform wheels round the parade ground.
Times, Sunday Times
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We can say today that this university is a direct ancestor of the platonic republic of Plato's Academy.
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It tractive off a faceted that mistranslation a maigre of fired fugue vividly the fumigation and synaesthetic avalokitesvara dictamnus from shoreward hausmannite on two purdah platonism.
Rational Review
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And Phil, after profound thought that would have impressed Plato, sold it for a fiver.
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Therefore, the hexagram refers to both the contemplator and contemplation.
I Ching…influences for the day. In harmony with nature… « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture
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Plato and the Stoics introduce divination as a godlike enthusiasm, the soul itself being of a divine constitution, and this prophetic faculty being inspiration, or an illapse of the divine knowledge into man; and so likewise they account for interpretation by dreams.
Essays and Miscellanies
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We noticed early on that Plato, speaking through Socrates, demands that knowledge be stable.
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The Academy's method of argument was, in the first instance, dialectical, like that of Socrates in Plato's Socratic dialogues.
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Plato here expresses four kinds of mania, by which I desire to understand enthusiasm and the inspiration of the gods: Firstly, the musical; secondly, the telestic or mystic; thirdly, the prophetic; and fourthly, that which belongs to love.
Zanoni
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Plato, and has been vaguely voiced at intervals down through the centuries; but its complete establishment came only as an indirect issue of the great scientific discoveries of the nineteenth century, and its application to the problems of practical schoolcraft and its dissemination through the rank and file of teachers awaited the dawn of the twentieth century.
Craftsmanship in Teaching
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In this passage, Berger has simply assumed that the platonist position has prevailed.
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But in the second half of the century both neoplatonists and mechanists usually promoted more practical projects.
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platoons of tourists poured out of the busses
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“Platonic love,” which by philosophers and poets of the Renaissance was understood in a pro - foundly mystical sense, was castigated by the enlight - ened authors of the rococo as the naive enthusiasm of immature adolescents.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Family Acipenseridae pallid sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus albus shovelnose sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus platorynchus
Trout and Salmon of North America
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In the trial of Socrates, as described by Plato, the oracle at Delphi proclaimed that there is no one wiser than Socrates.
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Did Edwards believe Socrates and Plato were regenerate?
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Acting as the beaters, the infantry platoon is to clear the woods for the enemy eyes forward.
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Philosophically as well as poetically his Platonism was a muddied stream.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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And this relegation of rationality to a strictly instrumental role is, as we discover in Book IV, constitutive of injustice as Plato understands it.
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While carrying the M-1 in the platoon his rifle never fell to the ground.
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he has read Plato's Dialogues in the original Greek
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This solution is the ancestor of many versions of platonism in mathematics.
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Therein the mighty and incomprehensible God Himself is apprehensibly contained and worshipped; therein is revealed the nature of things celestial, terrestrial, and infernal; therein are discerned the laws by which every state is administered, the offices of the celestial hierarchy are distinguished, and the tyrannies of demons described, such as neither the ideas of Plato transcend, nor the chair of Crato contained.
The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
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Socrates, the fearless Utopianism of Plato, the ambitious encyclopaedism of Aristotle, mark the dawn of a new courage and a new wilfulness in human affairs.
The Pivot of Civilization
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Modern readers continue to debate whether the poems express platonic friendship or sexual love.
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Though Islamic philosophers had a independent, religious tradition of allegorical literature from which they could draw, the allegories from medieval Islamic thinkers tend to concern the same Neoplatonic themes of the ascent of the soul and the Neoplatonic structure of the cosmos, allegorizing the stages of emanation from and return to the One.
Literary Forms of Medieval Philosophy
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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. Plato
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Another force at a light battalion commander's disposal is his antitank platoon or company.
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In curing speech of specters and ghosts, analytical philosophy claims to cleanse the mind of a dreamy fondness for every sort of idealism, vitalism, Platonism, and transcendentalism.
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Some share may also have been contributed by the Platonic notion of the "grossness" or "bruteness" of tangible matter, -- a notion which has survived in Christian theology, and which educated men of the present day have by no means universally outgrown.
The Unseen World, and Other Essays
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It was the opinion of Plato, and is yet of the hermetical philosophers.
Religio Medici
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Prior to the start of the exercise, the platoons had gone out with snowplows to clear the worst of the snow away.
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Ministry is like war, and ministers like platoon leaders.
Christianity Today
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To answer this question, one might begin by contrasting, at least in a crude way, a Humean with a Platonic conception of practical reasoning.
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The Atlantis story also comes to us from antiquity, through the Greek philosopher and mythopoet Plato, who grew up under the spell of Homer's epics as well.
Archive 2009-07-01
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From the text, we know that Kierkegaard's criticize to double-minded is much similar to Plato's refutation to various kinds of concept of justice in first two volumes of Republic.
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* Deum quilibet opifex Christianus et invenit, et ostendit, et exinde totum quod in deum quaeritur re quoque adsignat, licet Plato adfirmet factitatorem universitatis neque inveniri facilem et inventum enarrari in omnes difficilem: [1595] 1
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries
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An entire platoon of soldiers broke in through the front door.
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Platoon leaders and platoon sergeants complete ‘train-the-trainer’ certification and are tasked to conduct this training bimonthly for all soldiers in the company.
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One platoon splits off and marches toward the crowd, their bayoneted rifles set at a 45-degree angle.
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Plato's own ironic skepticism has always been a lively topic for philosophers and should not be dismissed without con - sideration.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Several names he bandies about in these exploits are the same as last names of several men who were in B Company at that time, and some last names of men who were in the 3rd platoon.
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When hikers discovered that a good view was being obstructed by trees, the government would unleash lumberjacks - and cows - to deforest the area, imagineering the scene back into the Platonic tourist ideal.
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In a platoon of hard-nosed execs, few have a snout quite as strong as Irish budget carrier Ryanair's Chief Executive Michael O'Leary: a harrier of behemoth flagship airlines, a browbeater of trade unions, a bugbear of the European Union and an unhesitant user of the "f" word--and we don't mean "flying.
U.K. Faces Of The Week, May 15-19, 2006
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It will help to make intelligible the subtle and variable theories which follow, if it be premised that the Scholastics are apt to puzzle readers by mixing up with their philosophy of reason a real or apparent apriorism, which is called Augustinianism, Platonism, or
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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As cavalry platoons became too unwieldy, they were finally replaced by smaller paired tank and scout platoons.
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General Jackson therefore has no lack of experience of infantry soldiering, having been a platoon commander, adjutant, company commander and commanding officer in infantry battalions.
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Neither Aristotle nor Plato envisioned their cosmic cyclicity as requiring any detailed endless repetition such as the multiple births of Socrates, though some Stoic philosophers did adopt this drastic position.
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Judged solely in terms of his philosophical influence, only Plato is his peer: Aristotle's works shaped centuries of philosophy from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance, and even today continue to be studied with keen, non-antiquarian interest.
Wayne Hale: NASA Can Provide the Inspiration - NASA Watch
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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil. Plato
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For 2000 years, philosophers had to choose whether they followed Plato and his rationalism, or Aristotle and his empiricism.
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Illustrating Ortega's remark, we call unwitting or in - nocent Platonists all those — from German romanticism to recent popular poetry — who speak of “soul brother or sister,” “the fusion of souls” in “the ecstasy of love” in which lovers believe they are “joined as One,” and those who describe themselves as being loved by their
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Metaphysics VII 3: In abstracting all qualities and other determinations from body Aristotle arrived at a conception of characterless, undetermined matter, a “prime matter” that the Neoplatonists later defined as formless and incorporeal (because it was no actual body, but only the necessary underlying condition for bodies).
John Philoponus
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Neoplatonism The First Shit is the best shit.
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We could say, in a Platonic sense, that the dart of nostalgia hits man, wounds him, and precisely in this way puts wings on him, lifts him upwards.
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Hogg and Shelley had been reading Plato and struggling with the idea of preexistence.
Experiencing the Next World Now
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This cadre platoon consisted not only of more senior staff sergeants but promising corporal/specialists and sergeants as well.
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Unsane and Savage on a:comparison between the verticality of the Neoplatonic metaphysics and the Seyn of the Ereignis as immediate horizontal ground
Archive 2009-04-01
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It is a medal that was given to a a soldier that # 1 disobeyed a direst order or command, put their Platoon, Unit, Command and or
Dave M Murphy
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I haven't seen Heidegger's history of philosophy described as a regress before, but I can see the narrative, that man was in the Garden of Beyng, then Plato drank from the tree of metaphysical kool-aid and we've been dealing with that original sin since.
Archive 2008-06-01
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A Land Warrior platoon - each soldier outfitted with body armor, a computerized backpack system and helmet-mounted monocular eyepiece - is also part of the parachute assault.
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They explicitly disavow the classical philosophies of formalism, logicism, Platonism, intuitionism, and social constructivism.
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Christian and Latin Christian theological paradigms in Late Antiquity are related closely with Plotinus' Neo- Platonism, their theologies are based on Plotinus' philosophy.
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Classical greek culture is responsible for the disembodiment of pagan divinities : what the Archaic Greeks would have called divinities, became with Plato : "ideas", "forms" and "archetypes".
Archive 2005-11-01
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Lt-Col Lean said a patrol from the Fiji Company's Reconnaissance Platoon identified a small footpad leading from a road about 2km from the area of the corn theft on the afternoon of February 27.
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Godard was lost in Plato's cave from the outset, so he should not be surprised when this illusory ersatz world of film proves unsatisfactory - as a replacement for life, it is indeed a very unsatisfactory substitute.
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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. Plato
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Although the relationship was flirtatious it was platonic.
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