Celsus is generally described as a Platonist in philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
A.D. He was a pupil of the neo-Platonist Plotinus. From Wordnik.com. [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference
Neo-Platonist in that it presents him as Being and. From Wordnik.com. [NEO-PLATONISM] Reference
Thus, Michael Angelo is a Platonist in his sonnets. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Men] Reference
Speusippus as a Platonist having marked and confessed. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
So I am a Platonist neither about mathematics or physics. From Wordnik.com. [String Theory is Losing the Public Debate] Reference
Platonist holds, by the intellect and by the intellect alone. From Wordnik.com. [Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge] Reference
Descartes, however, was no Platonist, a point to which we will return. From Wordnik.com. [René Descartes] Reference
Swedenborg, throughout his prose poem of “Conjugal Love,” is a Platonist. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Men] Reference
In particular, the Platonist tradition underlies the whole of western civilization. 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
Plato, or of some Platonist in the next generation who aspired to imitate his master. From Wordnik.com. [Alcibiades I] Reference
You're a Roundhead or a Cavalier, a Platonist or an Aristotelean, a Greek or a Hebrew. From Wordnik.com. [Evensong address given to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Archbishop Michael Ramsey, Magdalene College, Cambridge] Reference
It was from the Platonist tradition, too, that the science of the earlier Middle Ages came. 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
Platonist will tow you ten wakes round the world, and never make you one pint of sperm the richer. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
Neo-Platonist, held that the purified soul could perform physical wonders, by the power of Theurgy. From Wordnik.com. [New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments] Reference
These introductions reveal that Jowett was not only a Pla - tonic scholar but also a devoted Platonist. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
One of the earliest philosophers to study critically the resurrected Lucretius was the Platonist, Marsilio. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
To a later Platonist, the difference between Plato and his imitators was not so perceptible as to ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [Alcibiades I] Reference
For instance the sharp-witted men, Charax and Demetrius the Platonist and Eudaemon, and any one else like them. From Wordnik.com. [The Meditations] Reference
“Neopythagorean” is a modern label, which overlaps with two other modern labels, “Middle Platonist” and. From Wordnik.com. [Pythagoreanism] Reference
While delivering a lecture, Bruno recited from memory long passages from Marcelo Ficino, the Italian Platonist. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Road to Infinity] Reference
Sheldon-Williams, I. - P. (1970), ˜The Greek Platonist Tradition from the Cappadocians to Maximus and Eriugena™, in. From Wordnik.com. [John Scottus Eriugena] Reference
For example, someone who asserts that numbers exist independently of the things they number could be called a Platonist. From Wordnik.com. [Platonism] Reference
The Platonist found this in the life of reason, freedom from the demands of the senses; the Aristotelian found it in the. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
The immediate effect of Aristotle's rejection of Platonist mathematics was one he certainly neither foresaw nor intended. 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
I a Platonist; we are therefore both in the wrong; for thou opposest Plato, because his chimeras repel thee; and I fly from. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
This current was so strong that philosophy itself was swept toward mysticism and the neo-Platonist school became a theurgy. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
The Cambridge Platonist Ralph Cudworth, for example, devoted considerable energy to arguing against Hobbesian atheism and materialism. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Hobbes] Reference
The entire neo-Platonist school used the names of those venerable masters, but it cannot be determined how much it really owes to them. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
Platonist is made so perhaps less by the convincingness of Plato's logic, than by the inevitable and irrefutable grace of his dramatic art. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Thomas Taylor, the celebrated Platonist, who possessed an unusual acquaintance with the character of these ancient rites, asserts that they. From Wordnik.com. [The Symbolism of Freemasonry] Reference
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