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Platonist
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Pla·to·nism  (pltn-zm)
n.
The philosophy of Plato, especially insofar as it asserts ideal forms as an absolute and eternal reality of which the phenomena of the world are an imperfect and transitory reflection.
Plato·nist n.
Plato·nistic adj.
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Noun1.Platonist - an advocate of Platonism
advocate, advocator, exponent, proponent - a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
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Platonist [ˈpleɪtənɪst] N → platonista mf
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I wouldn't want to be so vulgar as to say categorically that he might have been a homosexualist but I'm happy to infer that his relationship with the gloriously effete Jeremy Fry might have strayed beyond the bounds of normal aristocratic platonic idealism.
Snowdon by Anne de Courcy by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
Ryn, "The Politics of Transcendence: The Pretentious Passivity of Platonic Idealism," Humanitas, Vol.
On Claes Ryn's political philosophy by Byrne, William F. / Modern Age
Just as the cave gives Platonic idealism an 'allegorical apparatus for the projection of truth', so for Cartesian rationalism the body offers 'a horizon and apparatus of projection that stages the elaboration of rational subjectivity' (p.
The Culture of the Body: Genealogies of Modernity by Moscovic, Claudia / Yearbook of English Studies
 
 
 
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