Platonism Synonyms

plātn-ĭzəm
The philosophy of Plato or his school; esp., the doctrine holding that objects of perception are real insofar as they imitate or participate in an independent realm of immutable essences, ideas, or logical forms which constitute the world of essential reality
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. realism

Words Related to Platonism

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Related:

  1. idealism
  2. deism
  3. aristotelianism
  4. neoplatonism
  5. nominalism
  6. scholasticism
  7. platonist
  8. thomism
  9. pantheism
  10. gnosticism
  11. metaphysic
  12. rationalism
  13. positivism
  14. neo-platonism
  15. natural theology
  16. Aristotelian philosophy

Platonism Sentence Examples

  • Aristotelian logic secured the imprimatur of the revived Platonism, and it was primarily because of this that it passed into the service of Christian theology.

  • With Epiphanes, his son, he was the leader of a philosophic school basing its theories mainly upon Platonism, and striving to amalgamate Plato's Republic with the Christian ideal of human brotherhood.

  • He blends the tradition of the Old Testa ment with Greek philosophy, and, within the latter, exhibits that union of Platonism with Stoicism, especially in the doctrine of the Logos, which became dominant in the Christian apologists and the great theologians of the ancient church.

  • Moslems and Jews were applying Aristotelian philosophy to rigorously monotheistic faiths; Christianity had been encouraged by Platonism in teaching a trinity of divine persons, and Platonism of a certain order long dominated the middle ages as part of the Augustinian tradition.

  • In sympathy with this Platonism, the medieval church began by assuming the entire mutual harmony of faith and reason.

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