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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Philosophy
		On moral philosophy, in the wide sense, have been grafted the philosophy of law, the philosophy of society, or social philosophy (which is much the same as sociology), and the philosophies of religion and of history.
		Philosophy is like a tower whence we obtain the panorama of a great city -- its plan, its monuments, its great arteries, with the form and location of each -- things which a visitor cannot discern while he goes through the streets and lanes, or visits libraries, churches, palaces, and museums, one after another.
		If philosophy is the explanation as a whole of that world which the particular sciences investigate in detail, it follows that the latter find their culmination in the former, and that as the sciences are so will philosophy be.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12025c.htm (14352 words)

	How Philosophy Overcomes Tyranny
		Philosophy for him was the love of wisdom and implied the obligation to live his philosophy; it was not simply the love of talking about wisdom.
		Say to him, that, in deeming the best votaries of philosophy to be useless to the rest of the world, he is right; but also tell him to attribute their uselessness to the fault of those who will not use them, and not to themselves.
		Though modern academic "philosophy" has been deliberately debased and disfigured to the point of almost total uselessness, the continuing, pervasive influence of Platonic philosophy is so powerful a force for reason and just government, that the agents of tyranny feel it necessary to try to destroy it in any way possible.
	www.physics-philosophy-metaphysics.com /forum/how-philosophy-overcomes-tyranny-vt358.html (2831 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Neo-Platonism
		It should, however, be added that, while the philosophy that sprang from these sources was Platonic, it did not disdain to appropriate to itself elements of Aristoteleanism and even Epicureanism, which it articulated into a Syncretic system.
		Julian sums up the case of philosophy against Christianity thus: "Divine government is not through a special society (such as the Christian Church) teaching an authoritative doctrine, but through the order of the visible universe and all the variety of civic and national institutions.
		Notwithstanding all these facts, Scholastic philosophy was in spirit and in method Aristotelean; it explicitly rejected many of the neo-Platonic interpretations, such as the unity of the Active Intellect.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10742b.htm (3925 words)

	An Introduction to Platonic Philosophy
		Philosophy in the European tradition is an attempt to discover a place for knowledge in history, language, science, and even common sense but not in the quest to know thyself.
		An adaptation of this philosophy has disclosed that we are in the grip of a strange kind of problem, one that we hadn't suspected we have.
		Philosophy does go beyond this level of belief and passes into the realm of understanding and knowledge, but to discuss that aspect of this ancient art of Philosophical Midiwifery will require another article.
	www.philosophicalmidwifery.com /intro.htm (1253 words)

	Neo-Platonism
		Neo-Platonism is a modern term used to designate the period of Platonic philosophy beginning with the work of Plotinus and ending with the closing of the Platonic Academy by the Emperor Justinian in 529 CE.
		Plotinus was faced with the task of defending the true Platonic philosophy, as he understood it, against the inroads being made, in his time, most of all by Gnostics, but also by orthodox Christianity.
		To this extent, we may refer to the Pseudo-Dionysius as a 'decadent,' for he (or she?) was writing at a time when the heyday of Platonism had attained the status of a palaios logos ('ancient teaching') to be, not merely commented upon, but savored as an aesthetic monument to an era already long past.
	www.nd.edu /~cosmer/rcpaths/pages/mailbag03.html (6819 words)

	Essence as a Platonic ideal
		Platonic philosophy attempted to capture essence in a different way.
		Plato thought what we see in the physical world is a dim reflection of the true ideal thing.
		Platonic analysis aims to understand the physical world in terms of the ideals that capture the real essence that is dimly reflected in physical existence.
	www.mtnmath.com /whatth/node7.html (464 words)

	Renaissance Neo-Platonism
		For instance, there really is no solidly coherent body of philosophy that is "Platonic," but rather a series of philosophies openly or implicitly derived from work of the fourth century Athenian philosopher, Plato.
		In addition, Platonism never really faded out of the Western tradition nor was the Italian Renaissance a rediscovery of Plato; rather, the Italian Renaissance forged new philosophies from Plato and the Platonic tradition in antiquity and the Middle Ages.
		This new Platonic philosophy not only represented one of the central currents of Renaissance thought, it also had far reaching consequences in the future development of European thought and science.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/REN/NEOPLATO.HTM (2801 words)

	Marsilio Ficino
		Platonic Theology: Books 1-4 is a visionary work of the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, Marsilio Ficino, who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato.
		Ficino considered Platonic Theology to be his magnum opus and it is considered by many modern scholars to be the most characteristic work of Renaissance philosophy.
		He had sought to show that revelation was necessary because, although philosophy could demonstrate the existence of God and man's immortality, knowledge of God's essence and man's true destiny was beyond its comprehension and belonged to the realm of supernatural theology.
	www.wordtrade.com /philosophy/renaissance/ficino.htm (3593 words)

	Richard Rorty's Platonists, Positivists, and Pragmatists
		The Platonic presupposition which unites the gods and the giants, Plato with Democritus, Kant with Mill, Husserl with Russell, is that what the vulgar call "truth" the assemblage of true statements-should be thought of as divided into a lower and an upper division, the division between (in Plato's terms) mere opinion and genuine knowledge.
		This Platonic urge to escape from the finitude of one's time and place, the "merely conventional" and contingent aspects of one's life, is responsible for the original Platonic distinction between two kinds of true sentence.
		The urge to make philosophy into Philosophy is to make it the search for some final vocabulary, which can somehow be known in advance to be the common core, the truth of, all the other vocabularies which might be advanced in its place.
	www.marxists.org /reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/rorty.htm (10271 words)

	Leo Strauss's Platonism
		philosophy is knowledge that one does not know; that is to say, it is knowledge of what one does not know, or awareness of the fundamental problems, and, therewith, of the fundamental alternatives regarding their solution that are coeval with human thought.
		The Socratic or Platonic character of the Dialogues for Strauss is revealed in philosophy's turning to a consideration of its conditions in political life: thought knows itself to be beyond political life, beyond opinion, but always connected to political life.
		However, from a Platonic standpoint, what is remarkable is the capacity of the Straussian philosopher to resist the movement of the thinking of appearance (phenomena) to the thinking of the principle that is the reality of appearance.
	www.mun.ca /animus/1999vol4/roberts4.htm (4828 words)

	Plato
		Middle period in the Platonic corpus used to mean "optimistic," "constructive," while "late" meant "critical"; but that seems to depend too heavily on a particular reading of Parmenides.
		This reflects the fact that areas of philosophy that are now often studied in relative independence of one another are viewed by Plato as being importantly connected.
		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)

	Political philosophy in classical Islam
		Instead, what we find in the Islamic political philosophers are variations on standard Platonic themes, pre-eminently the notion of the prophet as an analogue to the Platonic philosopher-king, the ambiguous role of philosophy in the practical political sphere, and the deep division between an elite and the vulgar masses (see Plato §14).
		If then the law enjoins philosophy, the philosopher is obliged to 'use' his wisdom for the benefit of all, in just the same way that the Farabian prophet (or Platonic philosopher-king) uses his wisdom, in a manner commensurate with the audience in question.
		This, then, is arguably the greatest achievement of political philosophy in Islam, to conceive of a society grounded in obedience to a divine law as itself the manifestation of a coherent and theoretically defensible structure.
	www.muslimphilosophy.com /ip/rep/H012 (2223 words)

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		There is no way i will dive into the philosophy of imagination, nor the psychology of it...but i will dip into these areas to express an understanding of these thoughts and their creations in my mind as it relates to neo-platonism, and archetypal psychology, and belief.
		The direction of the imagination for embodiment, the propensity of the psyche to literalize and hypostasize, and the philosophy of Greecian men inevitably lead to the development we are inheritors of.
		I think to use the notion of the "perennial philosophy" is preferable, this removes it from the a particular quirk which i will adduce, which is, for me, problematic of Neoplatonism.
	bahai-library.com /?file=cope_neoplatonic_framework (5601 words)

	ISNS - International Society for Neoplatonic Studies
		The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition will cover all facets of the Platonic tradition (from Thales through Thomas Taylor and beyond)...
		About I.S.N.S. The mission of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies is to promote the study of the philosophy of Plato and its long tradition from all perspectives.
		Beginning in 2007, annual membership in the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies includes the option of a subscription to International Journal of the Platonic Tradition, which will be published under the auspices of the Society by Brill Academic Publishers.
	www.isns.us (226 words)

	How Philosophy Overcomes Propaganda
		Plato's dialogues only make sense to persons who have committed themselves to the search for wisdom (philosophy), because they've recognized that there are vast continents of ignorance within their psyche which they need to illuminate and eradicate.
		It's no wonder that academic philosophy is in such bad repute today.
		Platonic dialogues invite seekers to participate in the maieutic (midwifery) psychagogy (illumination of the soul) that constitutes dialectic.
	www.hermes-press.com /philosophy_propaganda.htm (6120 words)

	Syllabi 2006-2007 B-KUL-W0FA1A Plato and the Platonic Tradition
		The aim of the course is to deepen the knowledge of ancient philosophy, by studying Platonic philosophy, from Plato through the Neoplatonists.
		Therefore, it is important that a student who wishes to specialise in ancient and medieval philosophy, acquires good knowledge of this Platonic tradition, by reading the texts in the original language.
		One of the main aims of Platonic philosophy is the achievement of the contemplative life.
	www.kuleuven.be /onderwijs/aanbod/syllabi/W0FA1AE.htm (513 words)

	Neoplatonism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Neoplatonism is a modern term used to designate the period of Platonic philosophy beginning with the work of Plotinus and ending with the closing of the Platonic Academy by the Emperor Justinian in 529 CE.
		The striving of the human mind for a mode of existence more suited to its intuited potential than the ephemeral possibilities of this material realm, while admittedly a striving born of temporality, is nonetheless directed toward atemporal and divine perfection.
		This is a striving or desire rendered all the more poignant and worthy of philosophy precisely because it is born in the depths of existential angst, and not in the primitive ecstasies of unreflective ritual.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/n/neoplato.htm (6884 words)

	platonictheology.html
		And from all these particulars, one perfect form of the Platonic theology will present itself to our view, together with its truth which pervades through the whole of divine intellections, and the one intellect which generated all the beauty of this theology and the mystic evolution of this theory.
		Besides, things of kind are only delivered adventitiously in the Platonic dialogues; as the fable in the Protegoras, which is inserted for the sake of the politic science, and the demonstrations respecting it.
		For the ancient Platonists, and those who participated the philosophy of Plotinus assert that an intellectual nature presents itself to the view in this hypothesis, subsisting from the superessential principle of things and endeavor to harmonize to the one and all-perfect power of intellect, such conclusions as are the result of this hypothesis.
	myweb.cableone.net /subru/platonictheology.html (14722 words)

	Plato [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		In this view, too, there is no reason to make any distinction between "Socratic philosophy" and "Platonic philosophy." According to the literary atomist, all philosophy to be found in the works of Plato should be attributed only to Plato.
		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.
		Whatever value Plato believed that knowledge of abstract entities has for the proper conduct of philosophy, he no longer seems to have believed that such knowledge is necessary for the proper running of a political community.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/p/plato.htm (7918 words)

	How Philosophy Overcomes Tyranny
		Philosophy must be engaged in social-political analysis--among other things--because the order or disorder of a society shapes its citizens' minds and souls.
		Philosophy does not exist in a social vacuum, but in opposition to the world of tyranny.
		Philosophy illuminates truth by opposing it to untruth, perpetuating the tradition of Perennialist sages who discover and disseminate truth in their resistance to the conventions of their time.
	www.hermes-press.com /philosophy_tyranny.htm (8486 words)

	Amazon: So You'd Like To... - View Guide "Know about Medieval Islamic-Jewish Philosophy & Leo Strauss" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Philosophy and Law: Contributions to the Understanding of Maimonides and His Predecessors (Suny Series in the Jewish Writings of Strauss)
		The Farabi essay ends in a genuinely jaw-dropping manner: ‘we admire the ease with which Farabi invented Platonic speeches.’ One way to understand this gnomic remark is to infer that while the politically ‘Platonic’ esoteric reading made famous by Strauss may not be his invention it is indeed an invention of Farabi.
		Philosophy and Law: Contributions to the Understanding of Maimonides and His Predecessors (Suny Series in the Jewish Writings of Strauss) by Leo Strauss
	www.amazon.com /gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/KJJF0KGLKLH5 (1725 words)

	John Shannon Hendrix - Art Architecture Theory
		Examines the Platonic bases of the aesthetics of Plotinus, and the Plotinian bases of the aesthetics of Schelling and Hegel in the Philosophy of Spirit, Identity Philosophy (the relation between intellect and nature), and Transcendental Idealism.
		An analysis of the role that philosophies and philosophical structures which were circulating in seventeenth-century Rome played in the designs of the Baroque architect Francesco Borromini, especially in the church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane.
		"Nicolas Cusanus and the Transmutation of Geometries," Platonism, Neoplatonism and
	www.johnhendrix.net /index.html (1451 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: The Golden Chain: An Anthology of Pythagorean and Platonic Philosophy by Algis Uzdavinys & John F. ...
		The object in Hellenic times was to establish for its practitioners of the philosophy of Plato and Pythagoras a harmony with the cosmos, purifying their souls and leading them into union with the Divine Intellect and the One.
		The present anthology of the Pythagorean and Platonic tradition disagrees in certain important respects with the modern understanding of philosophy in general and of Platonism and Pythagoreanism in particular.
		Modern Western philosophy (a rather monstrous and corrupted creature, initially shaped by late Christian theology and post-Descartesian logic) has been systematically reduced to a philosophical discourse of a single dogmatic kind, through the fatal one-sidedness of its professed secular humanistic mentality, and a crucial misunderstanding of traditional wisdom.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/eBook35009.htm (816 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Lucas Siorvanes - Proclus: Neo-Platonic Philosophy and Science at Epinions.com
		The last ten years have been eventful for readers of Proclus: the French edition of the Platonic Theology has been completed, and in its wake numerous studies on that seminal work and on other aspects of Proclus' thought have appeared; after decades of neglect, Proclus has been rehabilitated as a mystic.
		Proclus' philosophy of myth appears in many of his works, but nowhere more than in his vast Commentary on the Republic.
		Some previous knowledge of ancient Greek philosophy (especially Plato and Aristotle) is necessary in order to get the most out of it.
	www.epinions.com /content_148848021124 (723 words)

	USC: CAS: Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Philosophy
		Her current research has four components: Aristotle's practical philosophy, and specifically on his account of practical wisdom; Plato's practical philosophy; Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War; and domestic politics during times of civil and international conflict, as seen through the writings of Thucydides, Plato, and Aristotle.
		He is currently working on a book that examines the role Platonic philosophy has played in the development of poststructuralist philosophies of the subject.
		In addition to activities expicitly sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, there are other units on campus with related activities, most especially, of course, the Classics Program.
	www.cas.sc.edu /phil/groups/ancient.html (1088 words)

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