Sentence examples for Platonic from high-quality English sources.

• It contains not only a Platonic view…

• Nevertheless, following Augustine and Seneca, he does not reject the Platonic ideas outright.

• The souls are shuttled through this process by soul counsellors—all of them named Jerry—who are depicted as ever-changing modernist doodles, two-dimensional and translucent, the Platonic forms of Platonic forms.

• The Platonic influence in musical thought was to be dominant for at least a millennium.

• The Sophist and Statesman strike many scholars as more dogmatic than other Platonic dialogues.

• Schopenhauer states that the highest purpose of art is to communicate Platonic Ideas (WWR, Section 50).

• Like an irreverently intelligent school boy, Aristotle objects that the Platonic solids cannot fill space.

• The revival of interest in Plato during the Renaissance encouraged numerous imitations and adaptations of the Platonic dialogue.

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• On the Division of Nature is a large, systematic work in four books, presenting a vision of reality in strongly neo-Platonic terms.

• Be that as it may, it is nevertheless clear that there is a rich pedigree in the history of the Platonic tradition regarding harmonisation.

• Field’s point is not simply, echoing Benacerraf, that no causal account of reliability will be available to the platonist, and therefore to the platonic realist.

• Few philosophers now believe in such a “Platonic heaven,” at least as Plato originally conceived it; the “copying” theory of exemplification is generally rejected.

• Galen is centrally concerned to refute the Stoic view of the hēgemonikon as located in the heart, as against the Platonic-Galenic view of its location in the brain.

• A semi-Platonic argument about mimesis reinforces a discernibly non-Platonic argument concerning the historically fluid character of subject matters.

• Others, struck by the prominence in Thomas of such Platonic notions as participation, have argued that his thought is fundamentally Platonic, not Aristotelian.

• Precisely to service this enthusiasm, Marsilio Ficino (1433–99), head of the Platonic Academy, translated the entire Platonic corpus into Latin by the end of the 15th century.

Platonic sentence examples

• The same chapter is also interesting for the explicit contrast it makes between intelligent design as Galen, in the post-Platonic Greek tradition, understands it, and intelligent design as understood in the Jewish tradition.

• As we could see from Boethius’ solution, in this way, if Platonic Forms are not universal beings existing in a universal manner, but their universality is due to a universal manner of understanding, we can avoid the contradictions arising from the “naïve” Platonic conception.

• This also means that contra the standard Neoplatonic (and Platonic) rhetorics of “matter as evil,” there emerges in Ibn Gabirol a concurrent discourse of “matter as supreme”: for Ibn Gabirol, both form and matter in the “higher realm” carry with them all the positive associations which form carries in standard Platonic pictures (including a trajectory of thought in Ibn Gabirol on which pure matter arguably emerges as more sublime than pure form).

• The description preceding the quotation begins (82. 20) with a passage on the first half of Speusippus’ book, telling us that it talked about numbers of various types and the five so-called ‘Platonic solids’ (the tetrahedron or pyramid, the cube, the octahedron, the dodecahedron, and the icosahedron, assigned in the Platonic tradition starting with Timaeus 54d-56b to the elements of which the universe was composed and to the universe itself or to the fifth element, ether).