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13 ore fa · The chapter analyses how Plotinus elaborates a systematic exposition of Platonism focused on metaphysical issues such as the nature of the divine intellect and the causality of Forms, as well as the nature of the soul, which is considered as a truly intelligible reality. It shows how the general framework of the derivation of all things from ...
What do people here think about Platonism and Neoplatonism, Plato's thought and how much of it is compatible with Stoicism? I saw some people trying to reconcile Epicureanism and Stoicism, which are much more diveregent philosophies, so I wanted to ask how, If possible, one could harmonize these two philosophies.
5 giorni fa · Nietzsche’s criticism of “idealism” concerns to a great extent various forms Platonism rather than Plato. Moreover, if we recall Nietzsche’s “ruling logos”, as he formulates it in Gay Science , the parallel grows stronger: “I want to learn more and more to see beauty in the necessity of things:—so I shall be one of those who make things beautiful.
3 giorni fa · Platonic solid. In geometry, a Platonic solid is a convex, regular polyhedron in three-dimensional Euclidean space. Being a regular polyhedron means that the faces are congruent (identical in shape and size) regular polygons (all angles congruent and all edges congruent), and the same number of faces meet at each vertex.
2 giorni fa · The theory of Forms or theory of Ideas is a philosophical theory, concept, or world-view, attributed to Plato, that the physical world is not as real or true as timeless, absolute, unchangeable ideas. According to this theory, ideas in this sense, often capitalized and translated as "Ideas" or "Forms", are the non-physical essences ...
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3 giorni fa · What did Plato and Aristotle agree and disagree on? Learn about the major similarities and differences between Plato and his student Aristotle.
2 giorni fa · The earliest known mention of Atlantis appears in Plato‘s works, written around 360 BCE. In Timaeus, Plato introduces the story of Atlantis as a historical account told to the Athenian statesman Solon by an Egyptian priest. The priest describes Atlantis as a vast island nation located beyond the Pillars of Hercules (the modern-day Strait of ...
