Platonist
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- noun
- /ˈpleɪtəˌnɪst/
- Many philosophers today identify themselves as Platonists who advocate for the existence of abstract entities.
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Watch on YouTubePlutarch, being a Platonist, really didn't like anger.
- Plutarch, being a Platonist, really didn't like anger.
- Now, one of the issues that came up for the Platonists is, well, what about numbers?
- Human beings, generally speaking, don't understand what they're on Earth for, according to the Platonists.
- He is first a Platonist, sort of, then a Manichaean, then a Christian Platonist, and then a more fervent Christian.
- Really, I think the Platonists deserve the the credit for that.
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I think if you're a Platonist, you've got a real issue here.
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"Does that make me a Platonist or an Aristotelian?"
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Many would have agreed with the Cambridge Platonist Henry.
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If you, if you think that way, you have a Platonist moral framework.
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Now, one of the issues that came up for the Platonists is, well, what about numbers?
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Really, I think the Platonists deserve the the credit for that.
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So the early church fathers reinterpreted that kind of Platonist thinking in the frame of Christianity.
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Like Origen, Arius was thinking in Platonist terms.
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Christian thinkers were using Platonist categories to conceive the relation between the Son and the Father.
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Indeed, Augustine found the Platonists to be the best of the philosophers.
Academic text (1996)
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Etymology
Platonist comes from the name Plato, a famous ancient Greek thinker, plus the ending -ist, which means 'a follower' or 'supporter', as in artist or scientist. So a Platonist is someone who follows Plato's ideas, especially his idea of 'ideal forms'.