Difference between platonist and platonic
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noun
- an advocate of Platonism
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This ambivalence over the simplicity or complexity of the discarnate soul became a point of controversy among later Platonists.
Contributing to the Neo-Platonism of Plotinus were — besides Plato (read very selectively) and the Platonist and Neo-Pythagorean commentators on his thought — a constructively critical consideration of Aristotle and his Peripatetic commentators and an influence, deep at some points, of Stoic ideas which Plotinus 'conscious and frequently expressed hostility to Stoic corporealism could not overcome.
Mathematicians, most of whom act as Platonists, believe that mathematics is an actual ideal non-physical realm that lies behind our familiar reality of objects.
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adjective
- of or relating to or characteristic of Plato or his philosophy
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Crucially, at the heart of this construct is the Commission, comprised of appointed technocrats ruling as benign Platonic guardians, protecting the interests of all the peoples of Europe.
He mistakenly characterizes spirituality as a pallid Platonic flight from the world or some kind of interiorized religious stirrings.
We stagger round with the Platonic idea (from the Symposium) that we can love only one other person.
