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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 (494 words)

	IDEALISM - LoveToKnow Article on IDEALISM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Thus defined, idealism is opposed to ordinary common-sense dualism, which regards knowledge or experience as the result of the more or less accidental relation between two separate and independent entitiesthe mind and its ideas on one side, the thing with its attributes on the otherthat serve to limit and condition each other from without.
		Moreover, the end or ideal of the practical life was conceived of in too vague a way to be of much practical use, His principle, however, was essentially sound, and led directly to the Platonic Idealism.
		The conflict of idealism with these two lines of criticismthe accusation of subjectivism on the one side of intellectualism and rigid objectivism on the othermay be said to have cofistituted the history of Anglo-Saxon philosophy during the first decade of the 20th century.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /I/ID/IDEALISM.htm (8612 words)

	Plato - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Another key distinction and theme in the Platonic corpus is the dichotomy 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'.
		Albert Einstein drew on Plato's understanding of an immutable reality that underlies the flux of appearances for his objections to the probabilistic picture of the physical universe propounded by Niels Bohr in his interpretation of quantum mechanics.
		Conversely, thinkers that diverged from ontological models and moral ideals in their own philosophy, have tended to disparage Platonism from more or less informed perspectives.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plato (2981 words)

	Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Idea
		Idealism is properly defined as a transcendental, and not as an empirical, philosophy.
		The Platonic Idea is the object of art, and thus is knowable as an object of perception.
		Thus, the condition which is necessary for knowledge of the Platonic Idea is pure contemplation, the absence of desire, the transcendence of the subject-object relation, and freedom from being confined by individuality.
	www.angelfire.com /md2/timewarp/schopenhauer.html (2810 words)

	PLATONIC IDEALISM by John D. Allee, First Church of Satan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Idealism, the theory that reality is based on absolute truths (or forms) and not materialism, is one of the oldest systematic philosophies in western culture.
		Platonic idealism consists of the philosophical, social and educational ideas of the Greek philosopher Plato.
		Idealism and the Judeo-Christian religion were unified in European culture by the Middle Ages and thereafter.
	www.churchofsatan.org /idealism.html (2834 words)

	DISF - Dizionario Interdisciplinare di Scienza e Fede \| Idealism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In this sense, idealism is primarily opposed to
		Though recognizing that the German idealism of Hegel, Fichte and Schelling perhaps represents its greatist theoretic consistency, such a philosophical current cannot be confined to this period alone, as it concerns a gnoseological vision that, even with its different shades of meaning, crosses the entire history of Western philosophical thought.
		The direct or indirect repercussion of idealism on science is to be found in at least three meaningful ways: a) in the definition of what we mean by science; b) in the formation of the basic knowledge used by science and, specifically, by mathematics c) in the interpretation of scientific theories.
	www.disf.org /en/Voci/72.asp (10566 words)

	Encyclopedia Barfieldiana: Objective Idealism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Objective idealism contends, as Sanderson explains in Worlds Apart, that "if you start from the brain and say it 'constructs' the world it is aware of, you.
		It ceases to be a prejudice only when we become conscious of it as a law; when we transcend it, not by a sophisticated and unreal realism of appearances-of-things versus things themselves, but that actual realism, which understands and accepts the law.
		Objective idealism contends that the disjunction is itself an unreal one, and that reality, individual being, however you think of it, consists in the polarity between the subjectivity of the individual mind and the objective world which it perceives.
	www.owenbarfield.com /Encyclopedia_Barfieldiana/Lexicon/Objective_Idealism.html (565 words)

	Dictionary of Philosophy
		The road to pure modern idealism was laid by the epistemological idealism (epistemological subjectivism) of Campanella and Descartes.
		In Italy idealism is represented by Croce and Gentile, in Spain, by Unamuno and Ortega e Gasset; in Russia, by Lossky, in Sweden, by Boström; in Argentina, by Aznar.
		Idealization: In art, the process of generalizing and abstracting from specifically similar individuals, in order to depict the perfect type of which they are examples, the search for real character or structural form, to the neglect of external qualities and aspects.
	www.ditext.com /runes/i.html (12701 words)

	Omkarananda Ashram Publications: The Science of Reality and Its Aspects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Idealism essentially, in its various forms, implies that Reality is somehow bound up with idea, mind, spirit, person, ideals, soul and life.
		Popularly the ideal in conduct is altruism as opposed to egoism, or selfishness.
		God is the source and fountain of the ideals whose pursuit is the goal of human life.
	www.omkarananda-ashram.net /science.html (6354 words)

	Phoenix of Philosophy F
		The rediscovery of Russian religious philosophy, or "idealism," as it had been scornfully labeled in the Soviet period, was the most significant event in the intellectual life of the late 1980s.
		The Platonization of Christianity resulted in the loss of these existential truths and in utopian temptations of Russian thought: since the idea is a principle of abstraction and generalization, it was believed that the entire world should be united on the basis of universal ideas.
		In discussing Russian philosophy, especially the Soviet period, we have inevitably to consider the practical fate of “integrative” Platonic conceptions as we explore the final outcome of an ideocratic utopia, in which philosophy was designated to rule the republic as the supreme religious and political authority.
	www.emory.edu /INTELNET/ar_phoenix_philosophy.html (11685 words)

	House, Aristotle and Plato (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Measured by Neo-Kantian, Analytic or some other modern attitude, Aristotle's account of Platonism was philosophical nonsense, and the philological weighing and dismissing of evidence was in the end governed by alien philosophical attachments."[4] Findlay's distinguishing merit is his ability to recognize the original Platonism in Aristotle's exposition of the teachings of the Academy.
		Against this background the Platonic dialectic is intended to show how there can be stable limited determinations which would save discourse, disclose how the soul in its relation to both the sensuous and the intelligible has a relation to the Good, and how the limited determinations out of themselves are causes of change and externality.
		Aristotle similarly distinguishes between Platonism as it assumes the hypotheses of the Good itself, the eide, and 'the many' and considers what follows from them, and Platonism which treats the hypotheses as merely hypothetical and investigates their principles or elements.
	www.mun.ca /animus/1996vol1/house.htm (5589 words)

	DISF - Dizionario Interdisciplinare di Scienza e Fede \| Dettaglio voce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		German idealism and its influences on contemporary thought.
		Idealism and scientific knowledge: classical physics and mathematics.
		Idealism and realism in the methods of sciences: the search for objectivity - V. Theology and the idealistic principle of immanence.
	www.disf.org /en/DettaglioVoce.asp?idVoce=72 (98 words)

	The Politics of Transcendence
		The Platonic ideal may be too high, but straining to achieve it could only lift the level of politics.
		The main purpose of the Platonic ideal is to found justice in the soul of the individual.
		This criticism of Platonic transcendence and political idealism is not a criticism of every possible conception of transcendence or idealism or even of every aspect of Plato’s own understanding of the two.
	www.nhinet.org /ryn12-2.htm (7477 words)

	mu.nu :: View topic - Metaphysics 101
		Idealism is the belief that the material Universe does not exist of itself, that what really exists are ideas or ideals, and what we perceive as the material Universe is really created from these.
		In metaphysics, idealism is a term used to describe the sort of theory which claims that something 'ideal' or non-physical is the primary reality.
		In popular usage, 'idealism' is more of an ethical term, characterizing people who have a strong code of values or a great deal of integrity, though sometimes to an excessive degree (often contrasted with those who are merely or healthily 'pragmatic').
	mu.nu /Forums/viewtopic.php?t=7170 (6099 words)

	Idealism and the Platonic Academy of Florence (from humanism) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The idealism so prominent in the Florentine academy is called Platonic because of its debt to Plato's theory of Ideas and to the epistemological doctrine established in his Symposium and Republic.
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		The influence of their modernized and Christianized Platonism on Italian Renaissance thought was profound and still survives in the popular concept of...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-11783 (1017 words)

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		Thus, continuing with Platonic mythological magic, we are being informed that Divine Nous had decided to populate the Earth, to introduce anthropos to aristocratic, plutocratic harmony, to the infinite justice of global, globalized slavocracy.
		Thus, across the millennia, Platonic Socratic dialektiké became divine, the ideal „class struggle“, in which the „flesh“ remained weak, and the „spirit“ was always „high“, on high.
		But Platonism itself was still new, was still filled with its Not-Yet, with its own aura and aurora. Hence, everything was not necessarily idealist „gold“ which glittered in Platonism.
	www.homestead.com /pandemonium3/files/praxistheory00013.html (8523 words)

	Idealism at the U.N. by Michael J. Glennon - Policy Review, No. 129 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The report, in short, exhibits all the familiar shortcomings of old-style Platonic idealism, ignoring the real-world incentives and disincentives to which states actually respond.
		The point here is twofold: that there is no transcendent reason why those ideals are necessarily shared by every other state or individual on the planet and that, whatever their origin, global ideals cannot be advanced unless idealists confront the practical navigational problems that stand in the way of their realization.
		Proceeding under the illusion that one’s ideals are and must be everyone else’s is a formula for disaster.
	www.policyreview.org /feb05/glennon.html (4560 words)

	Randomness, Death, The Meaning of Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In the Platonic doctrine, death is not a terrible event to be feared, but the beginning of new stage of the Soul's passage back to the Divine to be prepared for and welcomed.
		In Greek Idealism, man was enmeshed in a large scheme of purpose and intentionality in nature and in spirit.
		In Greek Idealism and in Newtonian science, the life of man, the passage of his soul, and his death derived meaning from the larger architecture of intention and purpose imposed upon the universe by a Deity.
	www.tobeyfamily.org /random.html (6319 words)

	An Idealist - Mohandas Gandhi
		Gandhi's immediate objective was political freedom for India, and yet, for all his social activism, he never lost sight of a higher goal for himself and his people, the quest for divine truth and justice, for human dignity and integrity, for the true knowledge of God.
		Ideal truth, ideal human integrity, ideal justice, not to mention ideal relationships and ideal moral virtue: so ardently devoted are the Gandhi's of this world to their various ideals that we need not hesitate to call them the Idealists.
		Plato, remember, thought of them as taking the Philosophic role in society, Galen named them the Choleric or Enthusiastic temperament, and Isabel Myers touched on many of these same characteristics when she described the NF or Emotional types as creative, enthusiastic, humane, imaginative, insightful, religious, subjective, and sympathetic.
	keirsey.com /gandhi.html (505 words)

	PlanetPapers - Plato: Patriot or Dissident
		Platonic Idealism is based upon the assumption that the essence of the qualities you predicate to things is eternal.
		His idea of the ideal city-state is one that best allows all three personalities types to find happiness.
		Most importantly it should be ideally configured to allow the rational to pursue their philosophical pursuits above all.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/3152.php (1704 words)

	Platonism in English Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The fundamental doctrine of Platonism as it was understood throughout the period of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was the reality of a heavenly beauty known in and by the soul, as contrasted with an earthly beauty known only to the sense.
		Platonism afforded not only the philosophic basis for the object of this passion, but it also acted as a corrective tendency in checking the influence of an alien idea, erotic mysticism.
		According to Ficino, the greatest representative of Italian Platonism during the Renaissance, one truth established by the speech of Eryximachus in the “Symposium” is that love is the creator and preserver of all things.
	phoenixandturtle.net /excerptmill/Harrison2.htm (4468 words)

	Body and Soul: Greek and Hebraic Tensions in Scripture
		But this small flicker of the ideal is trapped in a physical body that is totally a part of the lower level of existence, which is to say, is totally evil.
		But the soul can never master the physical, so the only final solution to the struggle is to shed the physical body and move to the ideal plane of existence, which for human beings is death.
		Thus is born the concept of the immortality of the soul, a spirit trapped in an evil physical body that needs to be shed so that the real us can move on to that ideal level of perfection that we can never reach as long as we are trapped in physical existence.
	www.cresourcei.org /bodysoul.html (2731 words)

	Is There Room in Empirical Psychology for a Platonic Idealist? - Psi Chi
		To the extent that psychology is influenced by Platonic idealism, we may too often be unable to recognize it, much less articulate it.
		There ought to be room for Platonic idealism and rationalism in empirical psychology and, furthermore, educators and students alike have a responsibility to insure that there is. We need to make rational idealism an explicit component in our curriculum and discourse so that its strengths and weaknesses can be openly discussed, debated, examined, and reexamined.
		For me, and for Plato too perhaps, idealism also includes the struggle to get to that true knowledge, whatever it is, and the wise use of those truths to guide behavior.
	www.psichi.org /pubs/articles/article_161.asp (3946 words)

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