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Platonism

noun
1.
(philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that abstract concepts exist independent of their names.  Synonym: realism.






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"Platonism" Quotes from Famous Books



... somewhat vague and unorganized corpus of Jewish theology. The matter was Jewish, the arrangement Greek. According to the relative predominance of these two elements arose Gnosticism, the Patristic theology, and the philosophical schools of Neo-Pythagoreanism, Neo-Platonism and ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... the papacy, which was also that of Charlemagne, and of other great Christian sovereigns, was not continued. The Norman feudalism of England and Northern France; the Caesarism of Germany and the Capetian kings; the heresies brought from the East by the Crusaders; the paganism and neo-Platonism of the revival of learning; above all, the fearful upheaval of the whole of Europe by the Protestant schism and heresy, troubled the purity of that great Japhetic stream, and has retarded to our days its momentous and ...
— Irish Race in the Past and the Present • Aug. J. Thebaud



Words linked to "Platonism" :   Platonist, philosophy, philosophical doctrine, realism, philosophical theory, Platonistic



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