Platonism

How To Use Platonism In A Sentence

• In his illuminationist writings, SuhrawardÄ« relies on Neoplatonism but replaces such concepts as being and existence with light and illumination, thus offering what can be called a gnostic-illuminationist version of Avicennian philosophy (Aminrazavi 2003). Mysticism in Arabic and Islamic Philosophy
• And of course in practice praxis Platonism and Aristotelianism have a much wider array of results than those enjoyed by Marxism. The Volokh Conspiracy » Paul Hollander on the Fall of Communism
• One of the interesting repeated targets of Mr Taleb's scorn, which he terms Platonism, is one which is carried too far. Stones Cry Out
• This analysis would also apply in large part to other systems of thought reasonably close to Christianity- such as Platonism, neo-Platonism, Judaism but not secular Judaism, Islam, or Kantianism. In which commentary becomes copy-and-paste
• Note 21: Maria Pernis provides a careful analysis of the tempietti in "Ficino's Platonism and the Court of Urbino," chap. 6 and conclusion. back Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
• I've become less Platonist than I apparently was the last time I read it, because I think I jibbed a little more strongly at Lewis' Platonism this time, but there's no denying that it makes a fascinating supernatural element. Kenneth Hite's Journal
• In other words, in the diremption of myths which yielded here a natural phenomenon to be explained and there a moral value to be embodied, Platonism attached divinity exclusively to the moral element. The Life of Reason
• It is, as he himself says, a strange composite of Neo-Platonism, and of hermetical, mystical, and cabbalistical speculations, all leading by a necessary logic to the dogmas of Redemption and the Incarnation -- a conclusion which at least points to the fact that for Goethe at this time The Youth of Goethe
• According to one theory G.W. Bowersock’s, in particular Julian’s Paganism was highly eccentric and atypical because it was heavily influenced by an esoteric approach to Platonic philosophy sometimes identified as theurgy and also neoplatonism. Julian 1st…Caesar of Rome! Past life experience… « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture
• They explicitly disavow the classical philosophies of formalism, logicism, Platonism, intuitionism, and social constructivism.