One of the interesting repeated targets of Mr Taleb's scorn, which he terms Platonism, is one which is carried too far. From Wordnik.com. [Stones Cry Out] Reference
Rorty would not say, for example, that Platonism is a “danger” for democracy. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Linker Replies] Reference
Philosophically as well as poetically his Platonism was a muddied stream. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Platonism, that is essentially the use of abstraction, is ridiculed and dismissed repeatedly. From Wordnik.com. [Stones Cry Out] Reference
More calls Platonism the soul, and Cartesianism the body, of his own philosophy, which he applies to the explanation of the Law of Moses. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Delight and Other Papers] Reference
"Platonism" does not resemble any single known text closely enough to allow for identification. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler] Reference
To understand Heidegger's "Platonism" one should turn first to his discussion of Plato's allegory of the cave. From Wordnik.com. [Plato's allegory of the cave] Reference
Even so it provides the broadest basis for a doctrinal definition of Platonism which is significant in the pres - ent situation. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
"Platonism" has almost nothing to do with Plato, nowadays. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Posts Across MetaFilter] Reference
Does this kind of idea make sense with more metaphysical notions, such as Platonism or many forms of theism?. From Wordnik.com. [Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums] Reference
A kind of Platonism into the arts in Europe for centu - ries to come. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
One single school, that of neo-Platonism, ruled all. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
Does Platonism end in a darkness darker than Homer's?. From Wordnik.com. [Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler: Doctorow's Bleak House] Reference
Neo-Platonism was a blending of Greek philosophy and. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
The last great system of defence was the New Platonism. From Wordnik.com. [The Jesus of History] Reference
Platonism of this poem is intrinsically spurious; the conception of. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
Middle Ages are full of a spontaneous Platonism, and inspired by an. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Civilization] Reference
Platonism in the making of the modern European mind will be made manifest. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Obviously in classical Platonism or Neo-Platonism there was nothing similar. From Wordnik.com. [RENAISSANCE HUMANISM] Reference
Sophistry or Platonism? by PrMaine on Saturday, Oct 27, 2007 at 10: 57: 53 AM. From Wordnik.com. [Truth Matters] Reference
That was really carrying on one side of Platonism and not the least important. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
But we need not take isolated instances of the Platonism of mediaeval thought. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Civilization] Reference
The revival of Platonism, for example, is not the simple repetition of medieval. From Wordnik.com. [RENAISSANCE HUMANISM] Reference
In ancient and medieval Neo-Platonism this theme is of a strictly religious nature. From Wordnik.com. [RENAISSANCE HUMANISM] Reference
Kantianism like Platonism failed because it still left the sensible unaccounted for. From Wordnik.com. [Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge] Reference
Page 530, Volume 2 enced by Neo-Platonism — belonged to the perfection of the work. From Wordnik.com. [ICONOGRAPHY] Reference
Neo-Platonic sources rather than Augustine's prec - edents and version of Neo-Platonism. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Platonism was better suited than Aristotelianism to placing man in the ideal center of the world. From Wordnik.com. [RENAISSANCE HUMANISM] Reference
The doctrine of the Logos brought Christianity into direct affinity with both Platonism and Stoicism, and the Second Person of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Augustine, much later, finds that 'only a few words and phrases' need be changed to bring Platonism into complete accord with Christianity. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
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