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platonist

/pleyt-n-iz-uhm/US // ˈpleɪt nˌɪz əm //UK // (ˈpleɪtəˌnɪzəm) //

柏拉图主义者,柏拉图主义者,柏拉图式的人,柏拉图主义

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the philosophy or doctrines of Plato or his followers.
    • : a Platonic doctrine or saying.
    • : the belief that physical objects are impermanent representations of unchanging Ideas, and that the Ideas alone give true knowledge as they are known by the mind.
    • : the doctrine or practice of platonic love.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • But these physical attributes could easily be explained away as types of anything the Platonist pleased.

  • He was more a Platonist in his spirit than an Aristotelian, although he was indebted to Aristotle for his method.

  • Coleridge was aiming at an important truth when he said that every man was born an Aristotelian or a Platonist.

  • Ruskin was a Platonist, steeped in the study of Plato, and bound to him by complete sympathy.

  • The real root of the difficulty to Platonist as to Gnostic was his sharp antithesis of form as good and matter as evil.