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	Platonic idealism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Platonic idealism is the theory that the substantive reality around us is only a reflection of a higher truth.
		Platonism is an ancient school of philosophy, founded by Plato; at the beginning, this school had a physical existence at a site just outside the walls of Athens called the Academy, as well as the intellectual unity of a shared approach to philosophizing.
		Platonism is considered to be, in mathematics departments the world over, the predominant philosophy of mathematics, especially regarding the foundations of mathematics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Platonism (291 words)

	Platonic epistemology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Platonic epistemology holds that knowledge is innate, so that learning is the development of ideas buried deep in the soul, often under the mid-wife-like guidance of an interrogator.
		Plato drew a sharp distinction between knowledge which is certain, and mere opinion which is not certain.
		That world is composed of Platonic ideas that are imperfectly perceived.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Platonic_epistemology (186 words)

	Epistemology
		Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology was 1967 book in which she sought to e...
		Platonic epistemology Platonic epistemology is the belief that knowledge is innate, the development (often under the mid...
		Social epistemology is essentially the study of what significant contributions are made by various social mechanisms to...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/epistemology.html (88 words)

	20th WCP: Knowledge, Power and Control: Some Issues in Epistemology
		The political importance of philosophy, the centrality of education, the use of language and the function of censorship are issues in Platonic epistemology that merit some discussion.
		The Platonic Socrates claims that it is possible to train people to acquire such a permanent conversion mentality (Rep.518d et seq.) and this leads to a discussion in the text on the importance of education as a structure of learning directed towards the pursuit of excellence.
		The Platonic dialogues themselves frequently demonstrate this conclusion by revealing it in the context of a predetermined plan and objective in the mind of the Platonic Socrates, something that becomes clearer as the discourse progresses.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Poli/PoliQuin.htm (4030 words)

	Platonic epistemology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Platonic epistemology is the belief that knowledge is innate, the development (often under the midwife-like guidance of an interrogator) of ideas buried deep in the soul.
		Mere opinion is the viewing of those shadows by prisoners in the cave, whereas knowledge is an escape from the cave, into the world of the sun and real objects.
		Through philosophical inquiry it was possible to look more closely at the ideal forms, and doing so indicates further correct methods of inquiry and conduct.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Platonic_epistemology (182 words)

	THE ORIGIN OF VALUE IN A TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION
		It is in Kant's more Platonizing successors that the connections between the disciplines are fully appreciated, which is to say in the treatments of Arthur Schopenhauer and the school founded by Jakob Fries [6].
		Making epistemology a general metalanguage for the critique of many systems of knowledge is fine, but generalizing epistemology opens the way to a further possible circularity: for if epistemology is to certify that all knowledge is possible, it can only do so by assuming that possibility of its own knowledge, which begs the questions.
		Thus epistemology has a safe empirical field within philosophy, one where the object is in a sense the same as the world but simultaneously so different as to be removed from the realm of direct scientific observation.
	www.friesian.com /origin/chap-1.htm (9225 words)

	Plato's ontology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Platonic idealism is the theory that the substantive reality around us is only a reflection of a highertruth.
		Some people construe "Platonism" to mean the proposition that universals exist independently of particulars (a universal isanything that can be predicated of a particular).
		Platonism is an ancient school of philosophy, founded by Plato; this school had an actual, physical existence at a site justoutside the walls of Athens called the Academy as well as the intellectual unity of a shared approach to philosophizing.
	www.therfcc.org /plato%27s-ontology-70398.html (243 words)

	Encyclopedia: Platonism
		Plato, in The Republic Book VI (509d-513e), uses the literary device of a divided line to teach his basic views about four levels of existence (especially the intelligible world of the forms, universals, and the visible world we see around us) and the corresponding ways we come to know...
		Middle Platonism refers to the development of certain philosophical doctrines associated with Plato during the first and second centuries A.D. One of the outstanding thinkers of Middle Platonism was Philo Judeaus (Philo the Jew) who synthesized Platos philosophy with Jewish scripture largely through allegorical interpretation of the later.
		Platonism This article may be too technical for most readers to understand.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Platonism (713 words)

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		Mystics, who claim that what is most basic to reality or existence (or whatever) cannot be stated have made the 'mistake' of valuing epistemology over metaphysics or existence by remaining faithful to an uncriticized logical standard in their metaphysics and are valuing what is implied.
		This is being done by quoting people with highly diverse epistemologies and by showing the power and thus the limits of each.
		That is, the power of epistemology has tended to lend more credibility to epistemology than it deserves.
	www.etext.org /Philosophy/Metaphysics/Existence_2 (3183 words)

	FMNN Editorial-Market Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Ethics deals with values that guides mans actions and choices, and derives from epistemology in that one must grasp what the nature of the universe is and by what means he knows it in order to know what actions are right and wrong for him.
		Epistemology deals with the nature and means of human knowledge and derives from metaphysics in that one must understand the nature of reality - what is real, what is not - to begin to understand what knowledge is - the truth - and how to integrate this knowledge further.
		Epistemology has many more schools of thought, but the major factions are the Empiricists, the Rationalists, and the Idealists.
	www.freemarketnews.com /pview/5783/829/html/index.php (2771 words)

	20th WCP: The Fragility of Freedom Gadamerian
		I argue that to the extent that the object of understanding presents itself as immediate revelation of truth, the interpreting subject is reduced to a mere acknowledger of truth as opposed to a creative producer.
		I focus on Gadamer’s appropriation of the Platonic notion of the beautiful as the model of understanding and I argue that such a notion of understanding poses a passive interpretive posture toward the object of understanding, i.e.
		It appeals to the Platonic and neo-Platonic notion of the beautiful for a sense of revelation which, as we shall see, reserves very little creativity for the interpreting self requiring rather the affirmation of tradition.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Inte/InteMell.htm (2346 words)

	Excerpt - Chapter 1
		Clearly this was a nineteenth century version of the Platonic conception, which split man/woman into reasonable and emotional tendencies, superior and inferior faculties, and mandated the dominance and control of the emotional as normative state of being.
		In the Theatetus, Socrates uses the term "soul" as synonymous with "mind." Given the Platonic conception of significant mental faculties, this means that the soul became identified with cognitive thought, with "cold" calculation, with a lack of emotion and a denial of feeling and sensation.
		Remember that according to Platonic epistemology we must achieve objectivity in order to know and that in his terms this is achieved by causing our reason to dominate our emotions, which in turn gives us control.
	www.africawithin.com /ani/excerpt_chap1.htm (4359 words)

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		The Platonic doctrine of recollection and the Platonic notion of the transmigration of souls figure prominently in his conceptual background as he develops his epistemology.
		If the epistemology is primarily Platonic then there will be a tendency to downplay the empirical; if it is Aristotelian there will be the denial of otherworldly transcendent reality.
		Paul: incarnational epistemology Augustine inherits a position in which Platonic (although Christian) forms in the logos are the intelligibles, "that truth by which all things are true" (Conf.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /jod/augustine/sheri (10247 words)

	DCBA Brief, June 2004 - Epistemology and the Legal Environment
		The negative thesis of Plato’s epistemology consists, then, in the denial that sense experience can be a source of knowledge on the grounds that the objects apprehended through the senses are subject to change.
		In terms of epistemology, he is important because he propagated the notion that knowledge is rational and distinct from perceived sensations.
		Platonic epistemology gives a sort of timeless path to finding true knowledge; the difficulty, of course, is that some beliefs are harder to justify than others.
	www.dcba.org /brief/junissue/2004/art40604.htm (6094 words)

	Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology
		Epistemology is, broadly speaking, the study of what knowledge is and how one comes to have knowledge.
		Epistemology, for Plato, is best thought of as the account of what knowledge is. A reader who has some familiarity with philosophy since Descartes may well think that epistemology must address the question whether there is any knowledge.
		If we can read back from this dialogue to the epistemology of the middle period, concepts are conceptual analogues to the subjects and predicates of spoken statements: corresponding to the predicate ‘equal’ of a statement such as ‘The sticks are equal’ is the concept [equality].
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/plato-metaphysics (17816 words)

	Plato (427 -347 BC)
		The suggestion is presumably that Platonism is a natural development of Socrates' philosophy even if it goes far beyond ideas about knowledge and virtue and the imperatives of the philosophical life to which he is restricted in the early dialogues.
		Platonism can accordingly be seen as the product of an attempt to understand a fundamentally Socratic conception of philosophy and the philosophical life in the light of reflection on these two powerful Presocratic traditions of thought, using the new methodological resources made available by geometry.
		Burnyeat, M.F. 'Platonism and mathematics: a prelude to discussion', in A. Graeser (ed.) Mathematics and Metaphysics in Aristotle, Bern and Stuttgart: Paul Haupt Verlag, 213-40.
	www.muslimphilosophy.com /ip/rep/A088.htm (15005 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2001.01.18
		This is the third monograph by Harold Tarrant in the area of what has traditionally been called "Middle Platonism," a catch-all label for the multifarious philosophical activities surrounding Platonism in the centuries between Plato and Plotinus.
		Any student of Plato who is prepared to admit the importance of the ancient Platonic tradition will be extremely grateful to Tarrant for undertaking this exercise with thoroughness and authority and will want to consult his text and in some cases perhaps try to build on his results.
		The tendency in modern scholarship on recollection has been to respect the distinctions between the different ways that this notion is deployed in different dialogues and to unify them with reference to issues of metaphysics and concept formation rather than a theory of consciousness.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2001/2001-01-18.html (1553 words)

	Plato - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Another key distinction and theme in the Platonic corpus is that between knowledge and opinion, which foreshadow modern debates between David Hume and Immanuel Kant, and has been taken up by postmodernists and their opponents, more commonly as the distinction between the 'objective' and the 'subjective'.
		One of Plato's legacies, and perhaps his greatest, was his dualistic metaphysics, often called (in metaphysics) Platonism or (Exaggerated) Realism.
		Plato's thought is often compared with that of his most famous student, Aristotle, whose reputation during the Western Middle Ages so completely eclipsed that of Plato that the Scholastic philosophers referred to Aristotle as "the Philosopher." However, in the Byzantine Empire the study of Plato continued.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plato (1756 words)

	Platonic epistemology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Platonic epistemology is the belief that knowledge is the development (often under the midwife-like guidance an interrogator) of ideas buried deep in soul.
		What Casti means by the title 'One True Platonic Heaven' is polyvalent - in the first place, it is frequent reference to the IAS, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, a think-tank founded for the advancement of pure science.
		I had heard the main female singer, Platon Andritsakis, on another cd ("Via Paquta" which I still can't locate) while I was shopping in northern CA.
	www.freeglossary.com /Platonic_epistemology (223 words)

	Taylor: Overcoming Epistemology
		It is the Platonic metaphysical outlook that believes in pre-existing, objective transcendentals, such as Forms.
		A (Platonic) correspondence or representational model/theory of truth says that the true concept/statement must be a photocopy of the original Form.
		However, "Aristotle's model could much better be described as participational [dynamic, developmental]: being informed by the same eidos, the mind participates in the being of the known object, rather than simply depicting [photocopying] it" (3).
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~jgr6/NMT/Tay1.html (1050 words)

	Plato [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Known as the student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle, he wrote in the middle of the fourth century B.C.E. His earliest works are regarded as the most reliable of the ancient sources on Socrates.
		Developmentalists may generally identify the earlier positions or works as "Socratic" and the later ones "Platonic," but may be agnostic about the relationship of the "Socratic" views and works to the actual historical Socrates.
		Platonic dialogues continue to be included among the required readings in introductory and advanced philosophy classes, not only for their ready accessibility, but also because they raise many of the most basic problems of philosophy.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/p/plato.htm (7918 words)

	The Platonic and the historical Socrates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Besides, even if in the early Platonic work Socrates appears to be the moral philosopher of the street, what would reasonably prevent us from acknowledging that his thought did not rust but evolve, especially after his persecution and death sentence, during his imprisonment.
		In this context the Platonic teaching about the ontological nature of the world of ideas and the immortality of the soul is unlikely not to have been greatly influenced by Socrates.
		But the nucleus of the Platonic dialogues must by all means faithfully[39] depict the unique personality of a virtuous philosopher who consciously agreed to take the hemlock, although he could have avoided it.
	www.kostasbeys.gr /Pages/Content/ContentPage.aspx?id=10096 (3258 words)

	Plato
		Given the third explanatory structure, with its two stages, the epistemology must focus on the insight and understanding that are involved in our attaining adequate representations of systems of abstract entities such as those we encounter in mathematical or geometrical proofs or the abstract models of α science like physics.
		As we shall see, explicating this is the primary task of Platonic epistemology, rather than sketching the structure of proρositional knowledge and information processing.
		Through close analysis of Platonic texts the author seeks both to advance interpretation of the dialogues and to promote understanding of the cognitive functions of metaphor and imagery - aspects of language long dismissed as merely ornamental.
	www.wordtrade.com /philosophy/ancient/plato.htm (2801 words)

	Moksha Journal - Platonic Epistemology and the Nature of Philosophical Activity: A Comparison with Indian Philosophy
		In this text, we find another account of what the philosophical activity entails and the scope of epistemology, and it seems to reiterate and clarify the passage in Symposium which we examined.
		The term"eye" connotes passivity, being open to the appearance of a revelation, We may also infer that this activity entails the use of memory and imagination (the Greek phantasia, the power of the mind to produce an appearance), applied, however, to internal rather than external sensations.
		Correlative to this sophisticated anthropology is an equally sophisticated epistemology, one dramatically similar to that of Plato.
	www.santosha.com /moksha/plato1.html (3811 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Plato (428 BCE) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Plato (Platon, "the broad shouldered") was born at Athens in 428 or 427 B.C. He came of an aristocratic and wealthy family, although some writers represented him as having felt the stress of poverty.
		This cnviction is apparent especially in the Platonic account of the origin of the universe, contained in the "Timaeus", although the details regarding the activity of the demiurgos and the created gods should not, perhaps, be taken seriously.
		Their successors, however, in the twelfth century came to a knowledge of the psychology, metaphysics, and ethics of Aristotle, and adopted the Aristotelean view so completely that before the end of the thirteenth century the Stagyrite occupied in the Christian schools the position occupied in the fifth century by the founder of the Academy.
	www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=19 (13045 words)

	Platonic epistemology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Platonic epistemology is the belief that knowledge is innate, the development (often under the midwife-likeguidance of an interrogator) of ideas buried deep in the soul.
		Mere opinion is theviewing of those shadows by prisoners in the cave, whereas knowledge is an escape from the cave, into the world of the sun andreal objects.
		Through philosophical inquiry it was possible to look moreclosely at the ideal forms, and doing so indicates further correct methods of inquiry and conduct.
	www.therfcc.org /platonic-epistemology-13444.html (160 words)

	Journal of the International Plato Society
		This contribution is followed by a collection of six shorter papers that reflect on the theme ‘Platonic Knowledge: Is it an Illusion?’ These papers, by Luc Brisson, Michael Erler, Christopher Gill, Lloyd Gerson, Noburu Notomi, and Samual Scolnicov, were presented together at the World Congress of Philosophy at Istanbul, in August 2003.
		Platonic scholars can take up the opportunity to use this journal as a means of reaching a truly world-wide scholarly audience.
		When referring to Platonic dialogues by their full title, use the title that is customary in your language, e.g.
	www.nd.edu /~plato/plato4issue/contents4.htm (962 words)

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