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For most of that time, as far as we know, he was a straight-down-the-line Platonist. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z
The claim went back to Pythagoras and Plato, but Renaissance Platonists had been interested in number mysticism rather than real mathematics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
The Platonists’ doctrines of recurrence and reminiscence were not the real problem, however; both were endorsed by Proclus, who still wrote, as the Greeks did, in terms of discovery. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z
Simón and the tutor, by contrast, are Platonists: They believe in numbers and their relationships as eternal, universal truths. J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus Sees the World as Don Quixote Does 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z
Overall, Christians were more sympathetic to the Platonist view than to its alternatives, because they believed in a life after death. Disney Pixar’s Soul: how the moviemakers took Plato’s view of existence and added a modern twist 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z
In Mr. LaRouche’s view, Mr. Johnson continued, “true Platonists believe that industrialization, technology and classical music should be used to bring wealth and enlightenment to the citizens of the world.” Lyndon LaRouche, Cult Figure Who Ran for President 8 Times, Dies at 96 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z
If you find such regularities astonishing, you're a Platonist at heart. Complexity: Decoding deep similarities : Nature : Nature Research 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z
Whether you’re a Platonist, an Aristotelian, or something else, it seems pretty clear that scientists do decide that some features of the systems they’re studying are crucial and others are not. The challenges of objectivity: lessons from anatomy. 2013-03-01T16:15:07.583Z
Tomorrow, It Will Snow, Perfectly The ideal city snowstorm, meteorological Platonists say, blankets the landscape without burying it, beautifies but does not burden, transforms and cocoons without paralyzing or even particularly inconveniencing. City Room: Platonic Ideal of Snowstorm to Gently Cocoon City Tomorrow 2012-12-28T18:04:08Z
The Platonist exhorted men to imitate God; the Stoic, to follow reason; the Christian, to the love of Christ. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z
I think economists’ faith in an orderly universe is Platonist: There is an absolute orderly world, they hope, if only we could logically uncover it. Economix Blog: In Economics, You Are What You Model 2012-04-16T16:04:11Z
The Platonists were the next who attracted him. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z
The first theory was that of the Platonists, and it was adopted by the Christians, who, however, changed the signification of the word dæmon. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z
Cousin describes him as “a Platonist, of a firm and profound mind, who bends somewhat under the weight of his erudition.” Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z
One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z
He gave us an account of Taylor, almost the last of the celebrated Platonists, who worshipped Jupiter, in a back parlor in London a few years ago, with undoubted sincerity. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z
Everything again is centripetal; Tertullian is too much in earnest to lose himself in the endless periods of the rhetorician, or in the charming fancies dear to the eclectic and especially to contemporary Platonists. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z
Other philosophers contented themselves with asserting the supreme authority of Jupiter Maximus, and reducing the other divinities to mere administrative and angelic functions, or, as the Platonists expressed it, to the position of dæmons. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z
The Platonists approve of it, that it is lawful in such cases upon a necessity. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z
Gudworth. µ Among Platonists, the archetypal world is the world as it existed as an idea of God before the creation. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z
Evidently we are now on the track of a principle infinitely more subtle and complex than anything the pleasure-loving Epicurean, or the formal Stoic, or the transcendental Platonist has ever dreamed of. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z
Ancient Philosophy suggests to the modern student the name of Heraclitus or Plato; but Tertullian lived in the same streets with Apuleius, philosopher and Platonist, humorist and glori� animal. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z
The early Platonists, though they dwelt very strongly on mental discipline, were equally practical. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z
There are, said Porphyry and the later Platonists, four degrees in the path of perfection and self-accomplishment. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z
These marks of resemblance drew several Platonists over to the faith, who figured among the doctors of the church. Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels 2012-03-06T03:00:27.910Z
He only made the translation for the benefit of a few Platonists. Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck 2012-02-19T03:00:16.920Z
Unitarianism, it was remarked, has rarely, if ever, been taught or held by any man of eminence in the church who was a Platonist. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z
Strangest of it all is it to find the pure and lofty spirit of Henry More, the founder of the school of English Platonists, yielding to the general superstition. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z
In the prosecution of this method he expressly declines to have recourse to what he calls “the short and easy expedient of the Platonists,” the assumption of innate ideas of the laws of nature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z
It was not till a long time after Jesus, and when some Platonists had been initiated in Christianity, that the spirituality and immortality of the soul were converted into dogmas. Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels 2012-03-06T03:00:27.910Z
Where shall we find a more curious, graphic, and interesting account of the mystics of the middle age, and of the German and Italian Platonists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries! The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 2011-12-24T03:07:59.623Z
The new Platonist philosophy adopted not only the mythology of Greece and Rome, but the nature-worship and the magic of the East. Sermons 2011-09-26T02:00:27.830Z
The numerous writings which bear his name were really composed by the Egyptian Platonists; but the mediæval alchemists pretend to recognise in him the founder of their art. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z
He, therefore, held that the ground taken up by the Cambridge Platonists could not be maintained against Hobbes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z
He afterwards became a sublime Platonist, and, through gratitude, deified Jesus in the gospels and epistles published in his name. Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels 2012-03-06T03:00:27.910Z
The main strength of the Platonist geometers lies in stereometry or the geometry of solids. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z
The Stoics, the Epicureans, the Platonists, all had their several specifics which they vended as truth. Sermons 2011-09-26T02:00:27.830Z
He labored to combine the philosophy of Epicurus, Evhenius, and others, into a sort of moral religion, much after the fashion of some of the German mystics and Platonists of our times.—H. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z
A famous problem concerning the cube, namely, to construct a cube of twice the volume of a given cube, was attacked with great vigour by the Pythagoreans, Sophists and Platonists. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z
The Platonists explained the legend, as usual, by their "absurd symbolism ".*** Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z
The Pythagoreans had dealt with the sphere and regular solids, but the pyramid, prism, cone and cylinder were but little known until the Platonists took them in hand. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z
The controversy occupied not only the Christian Platonists, for whose numbers that city was so celebrated, but also the Pagan wisdom, then shedding its last rays under favor of the new emperor. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z
Cousin describes him as "a Platonist, of a firm and profound mind, who bends somewhat under the weight of his erudition." Heresy: Its Utility And Morality A Plea And A Justification 2011-05-31T02:00:37.797Z
The belief in a personal fate was deeply rooted among the Greeks and Romans, and proved especially acceptable to the Platonists. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z
In the suburbs of the city tradition still lingered of the Academy of the Platonists, the Lycæum of the Peripatetics, the Portico of the Stoics, and the Garden of Epicurus.  Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z
A fresh stimulus was given by the succeeding Platonists, who, accepting in part the Pythagorean cosmology, made the study of geometry preliminary to that of philosophy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z
Accordingly, after some preparatory compliments, touching the extent of his fame and travels, the Platonist, who was always notable for circumlocution, opened the business by inquiring what he considered the chief movers of mankind. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z
Ruskin was a Platonist, steeped in the study of Plato, and bound to him by complete sympathy. The Victorian Age The Rede Lecture for 1922 2011-05-11T02:00:18.513Z
We class the four together as Cambridge Platonists because they were possessed by the same idea and worked it out on individual lines; but they did not write or think in concert. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z
On the contrary, they thought this world so good, intrinsically, that they were sure God must have made it expressly, and not by an unconscious effluence of his virtue, as the Platonists had believed. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z
As an exponent of Plato he suffered from the fatal error of confounding Plato with the later Platonists. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z
The ancient sects of Platonists or Platonics were allied in some points of doctrine with the Epicureans, and were rivals if not opponents of the Stoics. The Great Apostasy Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History 2011-03-09T03:00:46.980Z
According to the Platonist Ficino the soul has descended from heaven and has framed a body in which to dwell. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z
Being now able to please himself, he attacked the Platonists—not only Plato himself, but Plotinus and his followers—and gradually he was led to doubt the serious value of mere knowledge. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z
The Platonists had conceived a cosmos in which there were higher and lower beings, marshalled in concentric circles, around this vile but pivotal lump of earth. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z
It had been the dream of this man’s whole life to supersede both forms of Christianity by a semi-pagan theosophy deduced from the writings of the later Pythagoreans and Platonists. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z
Thomas Taylor, the Platonist, for instance, is really a better man of imagination, a better poet, or perhaps I should say, a better feeder to a poet, than any man between Milton and Wordsworth. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z
Gnostic or Platonic words are found in the inspired theology of St. John; to the Platonists Unitarian writers trace the doctrine of our Lord's divinity; Gibbon the idea of the Incarnation to the Gnostics. An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine 2011-01-31T03:00:14.710Z
And his contempt for the body or the flesh, and many of the phrases in which its cramping, lowering influences are described, savour of the Pythagorean and Platonist schools. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius
But according to the Platonist this radiation of life and focusing of aspiration were both perpetual. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z
He left no writings, and of his opinions so little is known that it has been doubted whether he was a strict Platonist or a sceptic. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli
The philosophical, Platonist, or Idealist line of Christian defence is represented among recent writers by J.R. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral"
This evidence came by way of observation, even to the Platonist. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude
That such a faculty exists is certain to the Platonist and the Pythagorean. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius
The real root of the difficulty to Platonist as to Gnostic was his sharp antithesis of form as good and matter as evil. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt"
In spite of inaccuracy and the lack of critical capacity in dealing with their authorities both ancient and modern, the Cambridge Platonists exercised a valuable influence on English theology and thought in general. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens"
For three years I listened to the Platonists, Stoics, and Academicians at Athens; and studied till I was sick and stupid. A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3)
The Petrarchist would have loathed the Platonist as a moral Pariah. A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion
The new Platonist school, with Plutarch and Maximus at their head, were, in this age, the great apostles of the hope of immortality. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius
"The Platonists furnished brilliant recruits to the Christian churches of Asia Minor and Greece, and brought with them their love for system and their idealism." Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning
Truth to him was an elenchicism, an abstraction of the Platonists, whom in Rome he had respected for their wisdom and avoided with care. Mary Magdalen
Its last representatives, Damasius, Simplicius, and Isidorus, went as exiles to Persia, expecting to find a retreat under the protection of the great king, who boasted that he was a philosopher and a Platonist. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition
Henry More, the great Platonist, asserted that they who deny the agency of witches are "puffed up with nothing but ignorance, vanity, and stupid infidelity." Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development
The effort, however, of the Platonists of the second century has a peculiar interest, because some fresh elements have been added to the great problem since the days of Xenophanes and Euhemerus and Varro. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius
This "Divine Love," of whom Nimrod speaks, was "The First-begotten Son" of the Platonists. Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning
While Martin Tupper and other gentlemen look for hell in the direction of the moon, the Platonists, according to Macrobus, reckoned as the infernal regions the whole space between the moon and the earth. Flowers of Freethought (First Series)
As a philosopher he is to be classed among the Platonists, yet with a predominance of the prevailing Orientalism. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition
First, then, the christians so far agree with the Platonists as to believe that the body is no better than a prison or dungeon for the confinement of the soul. In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts
It was in the dim system of Pythagoras that the doctrine became a really religious tenet, as it was to the Platonists of the Antonine age. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius
Roughly speaking, Platonists accepted, Stoics and Epicureans rejected; and it was at least possible for Platonists, if they identified Mind with immaterial Reality, to believe in the immortality of the human mind. Landmarks in the History of Early Christianity
He was no Platonist, but not for the first time we discover him in a familiar Socratic position. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle
The Platonists had discovered that the seat of moral evil was material substance. Bunyan
In his philosophy, Brutus was a mixture of the Stoic and the Platonist. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar
This is the theory, which, with some modifications, was adopted by the later Platonists. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius
The Platonists solve this difficulty by boldly declaring that the universal ideas or forms are the real existents and the models of the things of sense. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy
"All knowledge," said the Platonists, "is the gathering up into one." Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles
The "dying to live" of the Christian, as well as "the rising above one's body" of the Platonist, have their part there. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions
This the Platonists utterly fail to give us. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory
But arbitrary fancy plays far too large a part in these random guesses, and system there is none, to bridge the gulf between the Platonist eclectic and the superstitious masses. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius
In earlier days, when Church thinkers were all Platonists, or at least Realists, the verity of the Sacrament was the Idea behind it. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England
As some men are said to be born Platonists, and some Aristotelians, so some are born Augustinians, and some Pelagians or Arminians. Religion and Theology: A Sermon for the Times Preached in the Parish Church of Crathie, fifth September and in the College Church, St Andrews
Justin discourses on that topic after the manner of the Platonists. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03
Hence the world has always been puzzled in its judgment of the Platonists; their theories are so extravagant, yet their wisdom seems so great. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory
Platonist and Pythagorean, even when they might reverently handle the ancient symbolism of ritual, were teaching that communion with the Infinite Father was only possible to a soul emancipated from the tyranny of sense. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius
And observe," he exclaimed—"observe with what gravity this eminent Platonist pleads guilty to the charge of having a mirror. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851
But in his moment of inspiration, the Platonist will have no sense for the imperfect. The Approach to Philosophy
In the opinion of Bardenhewer, Alexander was probably neither a bishop nor a Christian at all, but a heathen and a Platonist. A Source Book for Ancient Church History
The fault of the Platonists who say things of this sort is seldom that of emptiness. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory
Hence, although a man in the second century might be labelled Platonist or Stoic, Cynic or Pythagorean, it would often be difficult from his moral teaching to discover his philosophic ancestry and affinities. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius
None of the "Platonists" was possessed of the same rare quality of genius as either of these two great philosophers, but they saw with clear insight the full bearing of both systems. Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries
He has brought me no new text to comment on; but I must say what I want to say about the New Platonists. Romola
Spenser borrows in fact the delicate and refined forms of the Platonist philosophy to express his own moral enthusiasm. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660
The eternal cognisable element of Reality is apprehended, as the Platonist holds, by the intellect and by the intellect alone. Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge
The preachers, as we have said, belonged to all the different schools, Stoic or Platonist, Cynic or Pythagorean; sometimes, like Dion, they owed little academic allegiance at all. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius
One of these hymns of Boreel has been very freely translated into English "by a Lover of the Life of our Lord Jesus," probably Henry More, the Platonist. Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries
The reputation of "the Platonist" begins to grow, and will continue to grow. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I
The Platonists and some rabbis, Porphyrius, Plutarch, Zosimus, &c., hold this opinion, which is scornfully denied by some others, who assert that they only deceive the eyes of men, effecting no real change. The Superstitions of Witchcraft
For Hemsterhuys, born a Platonist to the core, became a leader of the reaction against the French philosophy of illumination—of sensation, of experience, of the verifiable. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.
The daemonology of the Platonists of the second century had its roots deep in the Hellenic past, as it was destined to have a long future. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius
Sterry is not usually reckoned among the Cambridge Platonists, but there is no reason why he should not be included in that group. Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries
Give him six months, he is merely her Platonist. Pipefuls
The note of purity is far higher than in Stoic or Platonist. The Chief End of Man
And the confirmed Platonist is made so perhaps less by the convincingness of Plato's logic, than by the inevitable and irrefutable grace of his dramatic art. Human Traits and their Social Significance
The earlier Platonist or Pythagorean daemonology was not employed to explain or rehabilitate polytheism. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius
Traherne shares with Boehme and with the Cambridge Platonists the view that Eternity is as much here as anywhere. Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries
It was from the Platonist tradition, too, that the science of the earlier Middle Ages came. 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
The Stoics and the Platonists frequently took an interest in the religious beliefs of the barbarians, and it is to them that we are indebted for the possession of highly valuable data on this subject. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
Read the haughty language in which Plato and the Platonists speak of all men who are not devoted to their own shining abstractions.' Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852
It was by a natural instinct that the Antonine Platonists went back to the great teacher of Plato for support of the system which was to link religion with philosophy by the daemonic theory. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius
Epicureans, Stoics, Platonists, Jews, Christians, they are all alike to me. Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century
At heart he is a Platonist in spite of himself. 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
The great poet, like the original man of the Platonists, is double, possessing the further advantage of being able to drop one half at his option, and to resume it. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection
He was a philosophical thinker, with a natural bent towards the abstract and the mystical—a Platonist rather than an Aristotelian. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography
How could a Platonist of the second century, we may ask, holding such a spiritual creed, reconcile himself to Greek mythology, nay, to all the mythologies, with all the selfish grossness of their ritual? Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius
Dr. More, the most rational of our modern Platonists, abounds, however, with the most extravagant reveries, and was inflated with egotism and enthusiasm, as much as any of his mystic predecessors. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1
On the one hand, he is determined to avoid everything ‘transcendental’, and his dislike of Pythagorean and Platonist mathematics is mainly due to that. 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
Galen, in his boyhood, learned much from his father's example and instruction, and at the age of 15 was taught by philosophers of the Stoic, Platonist, Peripatetic, and Epicurean schools. Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine
He inherited to some extent the doctrine of the Cambridge Platonists and repudiated the sensationalist doctrine of Locke and the metaphysical method of Clarke. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century
Apollonius combines in a strange fashion, like Plutarch and the eclectic Platonists, a decided monotheism with a conservative devotion to the ancient gods. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius
In a subsequent letter he writes, in reference to a new religion advocated by Taylor the Platonist:—'He will have no success. Art in England Notes and Studies
The immediate effect of Aristotle’s rejection of Platonist mathematics was one he certainly neither foresaw nor intended. 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
The Platonists say there are two kinds of knots which link the soul to the body. The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the First An Ethical Poem
This is composed principally of Socrates, Plato, the Platonists and Stoics, together with Heraclitus and others. History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)
Clement's quotations from the writings of Epiphanes shew him to be a pure Platonist: the proposition that property is theft is found in him. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)
God of the New Platonists was one simple Original Essence, 284-l. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
In particular, the Platonist tradition underlies the whole of western civilization. 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
If all men are born either Aristotelians or Platonists, then it may be supposed that all Englishmen are born Conservatives or Liberals. The Reminiscences of an Astronomer
Secondly, there were the later Platonists, who maintained that this world is the only Hades, that heaven is our home, that all death is ascent to better life. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
I have also learned from Heinrici's commentary on the Second Epistle to the Corinthians, and from Bigg's "Lectures on the Christian Platonists of Alexandria." History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)
Supreme Entity of the New Platonists known only by the Spirit, 284-u. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Even in speculative thought we know that Augustine owed much to the Platonists, the Schoolmen to Aristotle, the mystics to the pupil of Proclus whom they called Dionysius. 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
Henry More, Platonist and seer of visions, never attained ecstasy in his poetry. Irish Plays and Playwrights
In this extent the doctrine was held by the Pythagoreans and Platonists, and in fact by a majority of its believers. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
The Italian Platonists attacked him in the name of their, and his, master. The Age of the Reformation
Platonists, the Absolute substituted for the Supreme Essence by the   new, 284-u. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Lastly, others, namely, the Platonists, said that there is one supreme god, the cause of all things. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
A man that believes that his spirit is one with the Universal Spirit cannot but be an optimist if he believe that Spirit is the Spirit of Good, and that a Platonist must believe. Irish Plays and Playwrights
The scientific absurdities connected with that doctrine have been marshalled against it by Celsus, the Platonist philosopher, by Avicenna, the Arabian physician, and by hundreds more, and have never been answered, and cannot be answered. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
Spenser was a Platonist, and fed his grave spirit on high speculations and moralities. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country
These are the true reasons, not only for the rapid spread of Christianity in Europe, but also for the philosophic systems of the Platonists and Alexandrines which preceded it. Myth and Science An Essay
For this manner of speaking is common among the Platonists, with whose doctrines Augustine was imbued; and the lack of adverting to this has been to some an occasion of error. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
He was a thorough Platonist All metaphysics perhaps is poetry, but Platonic metaphysics is good poetry, and to this class Shelley's belongs. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion
Origen, who was a Platonist, and a heretic on many points, was severely condemned for saying that the fire of hell was inward and of the conscience, rather than outward and of the body. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
Moreover, the superior mental endowment of the boy made an intelligent conversation—so highly appreciated by Platonists and neo-Platonists—possible, whereas with a girl a man could only jest. The Evolution of Love
But all the later Platonists took the same method of defending our faith when it was attacked by the Christians; and certainly a more judicious one could not be found.  Dialogues of the Dead
The Platonists however were of a contrary opinion. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
With him were a Stoic, a Peripatetic, a Pythagorean, a Platonist, and a doctor, who began to tell stories so absurd and abounding in such monstrous superstition that he ended by leaving them in disgust. Greek and Roman Ghost Stories
The Platonists reckon as the infernal 17 Part iv. chap. ix. p. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
In the primitive Church the ablest Christian authors adapted themselves to the ideas of the Platonists, which were the most acceptable to them, and were at that time most generally in favour. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil
The Stoic, the Platonist, and the Epicurean, the Polytheist, the Dualist, and the Trinitarian, differ entirely in their conceptions of its meaning. Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer
Consequently whenever Augustine, who was imbued with the doctrines of the Platonists, found in their teaching anything consistent with faith, he adopted it: and those thing which he found contrary to faith he amended. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
It had immediate relation to the speculations of the Cambridge Platonists, and their influence on eighteenth-century thought, upon such subjects as those of immutable morality and the higher faculties of the soul. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century
He had friends among the Cambridge Platonists, and he found in Newton a brilliant example of scientific rigour capped with mystical insights. Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy Five Essays
He was willing to be called a Christian just as he was willing to be called a Platonist.... Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
I doubt if, among men of our nation, this truth was ever more clearly grasped than by the Cambridge Platonists who taught your forerunners of the 17th century. On The Art of Reading
This is why the Platonists maintained the existence of separate species, by participation of which the inferior bodies receive their substantial forms. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
Reference was made to the Cambridge Platonists, for although they belong to the history of the seventeenth century, some of their opinions bear too directly on the subject to be entirely passed over. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century
Christ Church Page 102 welcomed a born Platonist, and made him Senior Student, Tutor, and Lecturer. Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences
He is in this one of the truest Platonists of modern times. Browning's Shorter Poems
If all men are by nature either Platonists or Aristotelians, fly-fishermen or worm-fishermen, how difficult it is for us to do one another justice! Fishing with a Worm
If, therefore, the human intellect, as the Platonists held, became actual by participating separate intelligible forms, it would understand itself by such participation of incorporeal beings. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
In him, as in his fellow Platonists, there is little that is visionary, there is no disparagement of reason, no exaggerated strain of self-forgetfulness. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century
Plato had strange notions of the influence of Anagrams when drawn out of persons' names; and the later Platonists are full of the mysteries of the anagrammatic virtues of names. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2
The Platonists prescribed the following rule for philosophers: The mind of a wise man must be withdrawn, as far as possible, from the contagious influence of the body. Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation
Besides, there are thousands of Abstractions that the mind of "A Platonist" has never conceived. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 26, 1892
Now this opinion would be true, were immaterial substances the forms and species of these material things; as the Platonists supposed. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
The other Cambridge Platonist whose writings may be said to have a distinct bearing on the subject and period before us, is Henry More. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century
Fire was worshipped as a divinity by several idolaters: the Platonists confounded it with the heavens, and considered it as the divine intelligence. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2
And those sharp-witted men, either seers or men inflated with pride, where are they,—for instance the sharp-witted men, Charax and Demetrius the Platonist, and Eudaemon, and any one else like them? Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
For Platonists and Neoplatonists, such as the makers of the creeds—and some portions of the Scripture show this influence, as well—the divine, the ideal, was always thought of as eternal. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant
Augustine speaks, not as asserting the fact, but merely using the opinion of the Platonists, who maintained that there are some aerial animals, which they termed demons. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
The Oxford and Cambridge Platonists, than whom England has never produced more thoughtful and scholarlike divines, had profoundly studied the Alexandrian fathers. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century
Dr. More, the Platonist, had such an exuberance of fancy, that correction was a much greater labour than composition. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2
It was his prosecution of the Platonists which made him unpopular in an age when men had the right to expect that, whatever happened, learning at least would be respected. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots
For substance his philosophy went back to Locke and Hume and to the Cambridge Platonists. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant
So also we do not assert that the Father and the Son differ in substance, which was the error of Origen and Arius, who in this followed the Platonists. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
Whilst my blood is thus warm, I ne'er shall reform, To mix in the Platonist's school; Of this I am sure, Was my passion so pure, My mistress must think me a fool. Fugitive Pieces
M. Fouill�e is a Platonist—the last Platonist in Europe—and consequently an amiable man. The Open Secret of Ireland
Platina, the historian of the Popes, was one of the abbreviatori whom Paul had cashiered, and one of the Platonists whom he had tortured. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots
The scheme is interesting to a Platonist, because of its resemblance to the Order of Guardians in the 'Republic.' Outspoken Essays
The holy doctors held with the Platonists that different spiritual substances were placed over corporeal things. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
The truth is, that though mediaeval thinkers knew far more of the writings of Aristotle than they did of those of Plato, they were none the less far better Platonists than they were Aristotelians. The Unity of Civilization
If in respect of speculation all men are either Platonists or Aristotelians, in respect of taste all men are either Greek or German. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series
Whatever those called philosophers, and especially the Platonists, may have said conformable to our faith, is not only not to be dreaded, but is to be claimed from them as unlawful possessors, to our use. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891
To deny the existence of universals, to regard them as mere creations of the mind, is rank blasphemy to a Platonist; and the Alexandrines were Christian Platonists. Outspoken Essays
Wherefore if the form of fire were separate, as the Platonists supposed, it would be, in a fashion, the cause of every ignition. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
To one it may be the mysticism of the Cambridge Platonists, to another the frank and pagan joy in life of Anacreon and Horace. The Unity of Civilization
Thus Mark, who was an ardent Platonist, would find himself at odds with Brother Jerome who was an equally ardent Aristotelian, while the weeds, taking advantage of the philosophic contest, grew faster than ever. The Altar Steps
Educated men were Platonists, or Stoics, or Epicureans. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891
A few writers, like Cudworth and the Platonists, endeavored to put in a good word for the Greek philosophers, but the religions of the world were abandoned to unmitigated reprobation. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology
On the other hand, the Platonists held that the heavenly bodies have life. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
Later we will notice more closely Philo's relations to the Greek philosophers: suffice it here to say that he was the most distinguished Platonist of his age. Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria
Laugh thou at envious fate," adorers cry to this inspired Platonist, "Who, from earth's simplest combination ... Robert Browning
The Cambridge Platonists are all optimistic; and in the beautiful but little known Revelations of Juliana of Norwich, we find in page after page the refrain of "All shall be well." Christian Mysticism
A youth, it is said, who revered Plato always; and only gradually grew away from thinking of himself as a Platonist. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
Again nothing can be more fanciful than this bit of Henry More the Platonist:                         What doth move   The nightingale to sing so fresh and clear? The Function of the Poet and Other Essays
The content of their philosophies is, indeed, strikingly alike, save that the one is a Platonist, the other an Aristotelian. Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria
How warily the interpreter has to tread here, every one knows who has dipped, even superficially, into the controversies among Platonists themselves. Five Years of Theosophy
We shall find that this doctrine of the birth of an infant Christ in the soul is one of immense importance in the systems of Eckhart, Tauler, and our Cambridge Platonists. Christian Mysticism
According to Coleridge, every man is by nature either a Platonist or an Aristotelian; and there is some truth in it. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
By way of introduction he speaks of the Cambridge Platonists under whom his great contemporaries had been formed. Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles
All the vulgar fancies and superstitions which Philo had intellectualized, these later Eastern Platonists sought to revive and justify by conceptions of physical emanation blended of false science and mysticism. Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria
As one of the Cambridge Platonists said, we must not make our intellectual faculties Gibeonites, hewers of wood and drawers of water to the will and affections. Cambridge Essays on Education
Coleridge has said that everyone is born a Platonist or an Aristotelian, and one might perhaps adapt the epigram by saying that everyone is naturally either a mystic or a legalist. Christian Mysticism
Of English thinkers, the Cambridge Platonists defended it with much learning and acuteness, most conspicuously Henry More; and in Cudsworth and Hume it ranks as the most rational theory of immortality. A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga
In philosophy he was a Platonist and mystic, and was an early opponent of Locke. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
Of Philo, then, we may say, as Montaigne said of himself, that he was a Platonist before he knew who Plato was. Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria
His correspondence with the famous Platonist, Henry More, is appended to this "moral essay." The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer
The same purpose is evident in Clement, and in other Christian Platonists between Clement and Dionysius. Christian Mysticism
To them their banners, their tents; let them be Fire-worshippers, Platonists, Christians; let them live in the shadow of past revelations. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II
The arguments of the Platonists, to prove that pleasure is not good, are next examined. Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics
To be a Platonist is it necessary that one should adore Plato and believe in all he says? Recollections of My Youth
When he was called a Platonist, or a Christian, or a Republican, he welcomed it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lastly, in the seventeenth century the English Platonists avowed their intention of bringing back the Church to "her old loving nurse the Platonic philosophy." Christian Mysticism
The orthodox monotheistic Mussulman has his afreets, and djinns; the Jew, or the Christian, has his angels, the Catholic has his saints; the Platonist has his demons; Superstition has its ghosts.  Cock Lane and Common-Sense
However their two religions agreed so well, that it was common for Christians to turn Platonists, and Platonists Christians. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1
He testified his joy that I had read certain books of the Platonists and had not fallen on the writings of other deceitful philosophers. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters
As a Platonist and a poet there could not be any doubt on which side were all his prejudices; but he takes his ground cautiously. Ralph Waldo Emerson
He does not see, apparently, that, from the point of view of the Platonist, his universalism makes man's freedom to change an illusion, as belonging to time only and not to eternity. Christian Mysticism
He had in him the Platonist, the Statesman, and the Theologian, of each enough for an ordinary man, and one crowded the other in action. The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II
The demon, with Socrates, is the attendant genius of an individual; with Plato it is more general; and the assigning the demons to the four elements is a notion of the later Platonists. MacMillan's Reading Books Book V
His mother, Monica, early became an ardent Christian, and her saintly influence guided the youth towards the light; but entanglement in philosophic doubts constrained him to associate with the Manichæans, and then with the Platonists. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters
He was willing to be called a Christian just as he was willing to be called a Platonist. Ralph Waldo Emerson
We may now return to the Christian Platonists. Christian Mysticism
The Platonist crowded the Statesman, and, at certain dangerous moments, the broad humanitarian feeling overlooked the practical dangers of the critical juncture in which he had to act. The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II
Its limitation in this last respect will depend upon that mental constitution which divides men naturally into Platonists and Aristotelians. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860
Why, too, has Mr. Vaughan devoted a few lines only to the great English Platonists, More, Norris, Smith of Jesus, Gale, and Cudworth?  Literary and General Lectures and Essays
A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The Devil's Dictionary
The Christian Platonists, whom we considered in the last Lecture, wrote in Greek, and we had no occasion to mention the Western Churches. Christian Mysticism
This freedom of interpretation, which might gratify the pride of the Platonists, exposed the vanity of their art. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2
The new Platonists would scarcely deserve a place in the history of science, but in that of the church the mention of them will very frequently occur. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1
Yes, in the sight of God, like the archetypal ideas of the Platonists. What is Property?
Stewart wrote a chapter on the Cambridge Platonists of the seventeenth century, his object being to show that the thought of Plato "has been, and still is, an important influence in modern philosophy." The Book of Delight and Other Papers
His language on this subject resembles that of the Cambridge Platonists. Christian Mysticism
The lofty speculations, which neither convinced the understanding, nor agitated the passions, of the Platonists themselves, were carelessly overlooked by the idle, the busy, and even the studious part of mankind. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2
Of the four most celebrated schools, the Stoics and the Platonists endeavored to reconcile the jaring interests of reason and piety. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1
I wish to make myself master of the latter Platonists. Vivian Grey
The Cambridge Platonists went with Philo in declaring Plato to be "the Attic Moses." The Book of Delight and Other Papers
But in putting them together I have been obliged to depart from the chronological order, for the Cambridge Platonists, as they are usually called, come between. Christian Mysticism
In the system of Platonists, the visible was a type of the invisible world. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2
The declining age of learning and of mankind is marked, however, by the rise and rapid progress of the new Platonists. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1
Pray tell me, my dear boy, what possible good your perusal of the latter Platonists can produce to either of these three interests? Vivian Grey
Thus the Cambridge Platonists of the seventeenth century are a very remarkable example of the recurrent influence exercised on non-Jews by certain forms of Judaism that had but slight direct effect on the Jews themselves. The Book of Delight and Other Papers
This, however, need cause no confusion, for the Platonists had no direct influence upon Law. Christian Mysticism
The devotion of individuals was the first circumstance which distinguished the Christians from the Platonists: the second was the authority of the church. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2
Perceiving in mythology ingenious allegories, he showed that under the name of allegories covering and containing profound ideas, all polytheism could be accepted by the reason of a Platonist, an Aristotelian, or a Stoic. Initiation into Philosophy
Determined to spare no exertions, and to neglect no means, by which he might enter into the very penetralia of his mighty master's meaning, Vivian determined to attack the latter Platonists. Vivian Grey
The Cambridge Platonists were anxious, not only to show this dependence of Greek upon Hebraic thought, but they went on to argue that Moses taught, in allegory, the natural philosophy of Descartes. The Book of Delight and Other Papers
And yet, we find so very much in common between the Platonists and William Law, that these party differences seem merely superficial. Christian Mysticism
No doubt Augustin spoke to him of what he had lately been reading, and particularly of his Platonist studies, and of all the efforts he made to enter the communion of Christ. Saint Augustin
The greater number were Platonists, so called at least, and such they believed themselves to be, but more truly Plotinists. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If we come down a little by natural steps from the master to the disciples, we have, six or seven centuries later, the Platonists,— who also cannot be skipped,—Plotinus, Porphyry, Proclus, Synesius, Jamblichus. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858
The first doctors of Christianity were Platonists, who combined the reformed Judaism with the philosophy taught in Academia. The System of Nature, Volume 2
The Platonists thus lay great stress on the inner light, and identify it with the purified reason. Christian Mysticism
One recognizes in this passage, not only the Platonist, but the traveller and art-lover, who had gazed upon some of the finest specimens of ancient statuary. Saint Augustin
The sensitiveness of Petrarch was admirable; never did pure love, growing mystical and mingling with divine love, find accents alike more profound and noble than came from this Platonist refined with Italian subtlety. Initiation into Literature
"Religion," said Bacon, "is the spice which is meant to keep life from corruption," and this is especially true to-day of religion taken in the Platonist and oriental sense. Amiel's Journal
Like all men of great imagination, he was an idealist, and so far a Platonist, as Shakespeare might be proved to have been by his sonnets. Among My Books Second Series
Our Cambridge Platonists naturally revived this Platonic doctrine of deification, much to the dissatisfaction of some of their contemporaries. Christian Mysticism
But it was not only an Evangelist that Augustin discovered in the Platonist dialogues, it was almost all the essential part of the doctrine of Christ. Saint Augustin
Every man is born an Aristotelian, or a Platonist. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He is an idealist reveling in color: a Platonist brandishing the thyrsus of the Menads. Amiel's Journal
Dante is assumed by many to have been a Platonist, but this is not true, in the strict sense of the word. Among My Books Second Series
Notwithstanding such protests, the Platonists persisted that all true happiness consists in a participation of God; and that "we cannot enjoy God by any external conjunction with Him." Christian Mysticism
A Rationalistic Objection But the Philistines, as well as the Platonists, have an indictment to bring against modern verse, and particularly against the lyric. A Study of Poetry
St. Augustine is the most illustrious among the Christian Platonists. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
Passing to England, it created at Cambridge a School of Platonists, the issue of whose thought is evident in the poetry of Coleridge and Wordsworth. Authors of Greece
If you believe in beauty, truth, and love as such you are a Platonist. The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform
And, consistently with this belief, he revolts against the Calvinistic doctrine of imputed righteousness, very much as did the Cambridge Platonists a little later. Christian Mysticism
The most profound utterances of poets on this subject, however, show them to be, not rationalists, but thoroughgoing Platonists. 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
The common characteristic of the Neo- Platonists was a tendency to mysticism. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
With the better and more ostensible motives of Sheridan, there was, no doubt, some mixture of, what the Platonists call, "the material alluvion" of our nature. Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02
And observe," he exclaimed,—"observe with what gravity this eminent Platonist pleads guilty to the charge of having a mirror. My Novel — Complete
What the Platonists meant by making reason the seat of authority may be seen by a few quotations from Whichcote and Smith, who for our purpose are, I think, the best representatives of the school. Christian Mysticism
And observe," he exclaimed,— "observe with what gravity this eminent Platonist pleads guilty to the charge of having a mirror. My Novel — Volume 04
For instance, Cicero was a Stoic more than anything else in his ethical theory, a New Academician in his logic, and in other respects a Platonist. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
In the seventeenth century some of the Cambridge Platonists, as Dr. Henry More and others, accepted the idea of rebirth. Five Lectures on Reincarnation
Now it happens that Agassiz, considered in his philosophical relations, was a Platonist, since he clearly believed that the forms of nature expressed the eternal ideas of a divine intelligence. Louis Agassiz as a Teacher; illustrative extracts on his method of instruction
The English Platonists are equally sound on the subject of ecstasy. Christian Mysticism
The Platonist treats our physical world of sight and touch, which we think the most real of all, as a mere illusion compared to the 'Ideas' of his metaphysical world. Pragmatism
Hence there arose a new school more suited to the requirements of the time, which gave itself out as Platonist. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
For instance, he describes the Platonists as being on good terms with this very Alexander of Abonoteichos whom he is ridiculing and exposing. The Gospels in the Second Century An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work Entitled 'Supernatural Religion'
The Platonists divide the world into two, the sensible and intellectual world * * *. Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4.
These extracts will show that the English Platonists breathe a larger air than the later Romish mystics, and teach a religion more definitely Christian than Erigena and Eckhart. Christian Mysticism
He was more a Platonist in his spirit than an Aristotelian, although he was indebted to Aristotle for his method. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 05 The Middle Ages
He was Stoic, Platonist, Epicurean, as often as it suited him to employ their principles to enforce a moral lesson. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
He was taught two things he had not read in the books of the Platonists,--the lost state of man, and the need of divine grace. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04 Imperial Antiquity
The old hermits thought to overcome their impulses by retiring from the world: our Platonist has discovered for himself that the world of duty is the only sphere in which they can be combated. England's Antiphon
The Cambridge Platonists, indeed, somewhat undervalued the religious lessons of Nature. Christian Mysticism
For let us but for a moment consider the advantages which these latter Platonists possessed beyond any of their modern revilers. Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato
Besides these works of Apuleius, we possess some short philosophical tracts, embodying some of his Platonist and Pythagorean doctrines. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
And those sharp-witted men, either seers or men inflated with pride, where are they,—for instance the sharp-witted men, Charax and Demetrius the Platonist and Eudaemon, and any one else like them? Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius
He gave an account of Thomas Taylor, one of the last of the Platonists, who had worshipped Jupiter in a back-parlour in London a few years before. Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century
In morals he was a profest Platonist, and in religion he inclined to be an Aristotelian. History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
As for the Platonists, Stoics, Pythagoreans, they were his good friends; he had no quarrel with them. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02
His great friend, Thomas Love Peacock, ‘Greeky Peaky’, was a personal acquaintance of Thomas Taylor ‘the Platonist’, alias ‘Pagan Taylor’. Proserpine and Midas
Be another: not thyself, but a Platonist; not a soul, but a Christian; not a naturalist, but a Cartesian; not a poet, but a Shakspearian. Representative Men
Hypatia started, as at a new thought, and confessed—as every Neo—Platonist would have done—that she had never done so. Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face
Every man is born a Platonist or an Aristotelian, a Romanticist, or a Realist, or an Impressionist, and usually erects his own limitations into a creed. Without Prejudice
I am not taking high figures, either, as you will see if you reflect upon the number of octogenarian Stoics, Epicureans, and Platonists who confess that they have not yet completely mastered their own systems. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02
Coleridge, in his Literary Remains, says that they were generally Platonists, and all of them admirers of Grotius. The Riches of Bunyan Selected from His Works
Read the haughty language in which Plato and the Platonists speak of all men who are not devoted to their own shining abstractions: other men are rats and mice. Representative Men
Perhaps we have not been faithful Platonists enough heretofore, my dearest tutor. Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face
It must be said for the man that every lover is a species of Platonist—he identifies the Beautiful with the Good and the True. Without Prejudice
Give me figures; how many more of them than of Epicureans, Platonists, Peripatetics? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02
He was under the influence of Bacon, Descartes, and the Cambridge Platonists, and no one was more enthusiastic than he in following the new scientific discoveries of his time. The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth
Hamlet is a pure Platonist, and 'tis the magnitude only of Shakspeare's proper genius that hinders him from being classed as the most eminent of this school. Representative Men
I know of nothing more stinging than the joke Epicurus took the liberty of making on Plato and the Platonists; he called them Dionysiokolakes. Beyond Good and Evil
Typical Platonist or sceptic, he is therefore also the typical essayist. Plato and Platonism
A change indeed had passed over him, as if the chilling touch of the abstract and disembodied beauty Platonists profess to long for were already upon him. The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry
Apuleius was a Platonist: only, for him, the Ideas of Plato were no creatures of logical abstraction, but in very truth informing souls, in every type and variety of sensible things. Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2
Swedenborg, throughout his prose poem of "Conjugal Love," is a Platonist. Representative Men
During this period their literature was influenced by Zoroaster, and by the Platonist and Pythagorean schools. The Interdependence of Literature
The Alexandrian Platonists, the Renaissance, even the age of Anne, had their emancipated and learned ladies. Alfred Tennyson
The Platonists and pupils of the Academy, followed by the Sufis or Moslem Gnostics, held such affection, pure as ardent, to be the beau idéal which united in man's soul the creature with the Creator. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10
Is it not so, when you think virtue the only good, and the Epicureans pleasure; when you hold all things to be material, while the Platonists admit something immaterial? Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2
The genius of the Platonists is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books. Essays — Second Series
Probably the people who originated the tale were not Platonists, any more than Pandarus was all Aristotelian. Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1
On glancing again over the more mysterious threats and warnings in Mejnour's letter, they seemed to assume the language of mere parable and allegory,—the jargon of the Platonists and Pythagoreans. Zanoni
The rise of the Florentine sect of Platonists, a sect to which belonged some of the finest minds of the fifteenth century, was not an unimportant event. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
—A majority how much greater than the Epicureans, the Platonists, the Peripatetics? Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2
Savonarola's mind was filled with these things; the Florentine Platonists speak of a mystic union with God; and Marcellus Palingenius gives us to understand clearly enough that he had to do with consecrated spirits. The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy
There was a feud among the Platonists on a matter of interpretation, in which already stilettos had been drawn. The Path of the King
We can hardly escape from the conclusion that they are not statements of Aristotle respecting Plato, but of a later generation of Aristotelians respecting a later generation of Platonists. Charmides
He was, more a Platonist in his spirit than an Aristotelian, although he was indebted to Aristotle for his method. Beacon Lights of History
Plato's account of pleasure is remarkable for moderation, and in this respect contrasts with the later Platonists and the views which are attributed to them by Aristotle. The Republic
Then came the Florentine Platonists with their master's doctrine of the soul, supplemented at times, as in the case of Pico, by Christian teaching. The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy
Platonists had said—No, that is only virtue; and virtue is the means, not the end. Alexandria and Her Schools; four lectures delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh
Compared with what is of positive value in their philosophy, however, the defects of the Cambridge Platonists are but comparatively slight. Bygone Beliefs: being a series of excursions in the byways of thought
The persecution of the Platonists under Valentinian was due to that necessity. History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
It is the old problem, to be met only by the old solution of the Platonist, that Soul is form, and doth the body make. Style
In the circle of Lorenzo the Magnificent, among his most distinguished Platonists, opinions were divided on this question. The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy
So much for the lives and individual characteristics of the Cambridge Platonists: what were the great principles that animated both their lives and their philosophy? Bygone Beliefs: being a series of excursions in the byways of thought
In what respects, it may be asked in conclusion, is the philosophy of the Cambridge Platonists open to criticism? Bygone Beliefs: being a series of excursions in the byways of thought
The Cambridge Platonists were not ascetics; their moral doctrine was one of temperance. Bygone Beliefs: being a series of excursions in the byways of thought
Reason, Conscience, and the Scriptures, these, taught the Cambridge Platonists, testify of one another and are the true guides which alone a man should follow. Bygone Beliefs: being a series of excursions in the byways of thought
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