Sentences with phrase «by platonic»

She combines mathematics, digital fabrication techniques and «fussy hand finishing» to produce sculptures inspired by Platonic solids, Penrose tiling, two - dimensional geometry and three - dimensional space.

The clarity of Aristotle, however, was clouded by the Platonic preferences of the Islamic commentators, especially Avicenna and Averroes, through whom the newly discovered texts of Aristotle — missing from the West for a millennium — were becoming known.

Numerous thinkers have been shaped by this Platonic - Cartesian tradition.

Further the redemption of the body, of the creation itself, is in no sense required by this platonic soteriology.

Today history is increasingly understood as essentially the unique and creative, whose reality would not be apart from the event in which it becomes, and whose truth could not be known by Platonic recollection or inference from a rational principle, but only through historical encounter.

'» (90) The prevailing attitude, he shows, is heavily influenced by the Platonic concept of an evil material world and a perfect immaterial soul, as well as a misunderstanding of Scripture in which heaven, (as a kind of final resting place for the soul), is emphasized over the clear biblical picture of a new heaven and new earth for which believers will be physically resurrected.

Perhaps the quickest way to encapsulate that difference is as follows: while Process and Reality represents a systematic cosmology, Difference and Repetition develops a speculative «chaosmology» At its most simplistic, the distinction in play here is that between a cosmos in which order is imposed upon a primordial chaos «from outside,» or transcendently, (as when Form is imposed upon matter by the Platonic demiurge, or harmony established a priori by the Leibnizean deity), and a chaosmos in which order is generated «from within,» by a wholly immanent process of self - organization.

Civilization could be saved, she contended, only by a Platonic Christianity stripped of its carnal, Jewish side, through identification with the suffering Christ rather than in the hope of....

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It has risen to the top of the fast - food chain by being comfortably, familiarly, iconically «mass market» and so ubiquitous as to be the Platonic ideal of «convenient.»

[McDonald's] has risen to the top of the fast - food chain by being comfortably, familiarly, iconically «mass market» and so ubiquitous as to be the Platonic ideal of «convenient.»

And all this avalanche was caused by a not very successful attempt by a porn actress Stormy Daniel to make a photo robot of a man who allegedly threatened her and her daughter if she did not give up attempts to cancel the agreement between her and Donald Trump, forbidding her to publish memories of their not quite platonic relationships, at the time in his life, when he could not imagine himself as President of the United States even in his worst nightmare.

According to The New Encyclopædia Britannica, the one called St.Augustine's «mind was the crucible in which the religion of the New Testament was most completely fused with the Platonic tradition of Greek philosophy; and it was also the means by which the product of this fusion was transmitted to the Christendoms of medieval Roman Catholicism and Renaissance Protestantism.»

Of course, Cardinal Kasper is right that theology is a human enterprise, done by humans with intellectual and personal histories and dispositions, and not just a participation in a Platonic realm of ideas.

When Maine describes Noe's ordeal in traveling through a desert by saying, «Around him the land quivers and ripples as if still just an idea in God's mind,» he is making a decision to admit the Platonic image rather than impoverish the range of language available to him.

It is no accident that Platonic philosophy and the Christian religion readily discovered common ground, and that, in particular, Platonic ideas of the sublimity of the human soul were assimilated by Christian doctrine.

He associates this with the «spirit» dimension of the «Renaissance - Platonic» view of the human person as body - soul - spirit, as retrieved by de Lubac.

By the third century A.D. the practice of paideia treated all the classical philosophical traditions — Stoic, Epicurean, Aristotelian, but most of all Platonic — with religious interests.

And, he explicitly argues that this «traditional conservatism,» which is by the way, not an ideology, has the potential to address the age - old problems related to political science, while implicitly suggesting the possibility of recapturing man's tensional existence in the Platonic Metaxy, thereby restoring the order necessary to illuminate the divine - human encounter.

This is strikingly illustrated by the fact that when the Renaissance initiated a revival of Platonism, some Christian scholars, known as the Cambridge Platonists, urged the return of Christian theology to «its old loving nurse, the Platonic philosophy».

For Greek thinking in its Platonic formulation there exists between time and eternity a qualitative difference, which is not completely expressed by speaking of a distinction between limited and unlimited duration of time.

In his book on Whitehead, Process Philosophy, and Education, Robert Brumbaugh takes up the Whiteheadian challenge and in so doing sees himself working «in the tradition of Platonic metaphysics that includes the new emphasis on the concrete introduced by process thought» (WPP 2).

Take any traditional objection to accepting the old Platonic analogy of God as the World Soul and it can be shown that the objection stands or falls with aspects of a tradition which philosophy has been moving away from since the middle ages — for instance ideas of sheer infinity, sheer immutability, also what is usually meant by omnipotence.

No reference to God is necessary to account for the magnificence of «King Lear» — Plato's account of divine inspiration does not speak to our age, not only because nothing in our experience resonates to the vibration set up by Plato's account, but also because our experience finds the Platonic account demeaning, destructive of a sense of both human responsibility and the openendedness of human achievement.

There is probably even an earlier anticipation in his account of the «multiplicity of Platonic forms» which is «given» for a particular actual entity: «This ordering of relevance starts from those forms which are, in the fullest sense, exemplified, and passes through grades of relevance down to those forms which in some faint sense are proximately relevant by reason of contrast with actual fact» (PR 43fC).

It is the inheritance of the Platonic position, strongly augmented by Christian philosophy from the Patristic period onward, which in the modern period has continued the acceptance of the identification of «being» and «principles.»

From Plato onwards, philosophers have sought to escape from the anxiety of personal freedom by searching for certainty and objectivity in a supra - human realm, whether it be that of unchanging Platonic Forms, or in the inexorable unfolding of some grand historical design, or in an eternal life with an omniscient, loving, supreme Being.

Philosophy's recognition of itself as religion is neither achieved nor admitted by all philosophers, but among these who have recognized the identity of philosophy and religion are Socrates, Plotinus, Erigena, Spinoza, Hegel — in short, and in general, most of the speculative, «Platonic» tradition, in opposition to the mainstream of the analytic, «Aristotalian» tradition (if the reader will forgive such a gross oversimplification of a very complex history of thought).

He does not treat modern hymns and songs that can only be sung by men who are comfortable with entering into a Platonic (one hopes) homosexual relationship with Jesus or a feminine receptivity towards God.

to be logically impossible.95 If, however, Neville's demand for an ontological analysis can be sustained, Whiteheadians may then be forced to deal with the problems of being and the one and the many (perhaps by wedding Neville's Platonic - Augustinian ontology to process metaphysics, a possibility Neville himself entertains].96 Even so, two of Neville's most crucial claims remain debatable: (1) that indeterminate Being - Itself — without definiteness and beyond description — is supremely deserving of religious devotion, 97 and (2) that the process God — personal, the pervasive source of moral ideals, and the supreme agent in the achievement of these aims — is not.

And the platonic criterion for the presence of psyche is self - activity, by which I take him to mean some degree of freedom from causal determinism.

The attempt might even be made positively to recommend this fixing of a terminological starting - point, by recalling that for Christian scholastic philosophy, too, in contrast to Platonic and Idealist philosophy, what first meets man's cognition and what he therefore rightly takes as the starting - point and model case of possible objects of his knowledge, is what is experienced by the senses and to that extent material.

Cartesian dualism, sharply separating mind and body, had long been rejected by the twentieth century and with it the Platonic idea of a soul, or mind, that could exist independently and forever apart from a body.

Such an interpretation of St. Paul might seem to deny, or at least to trivialize, the Incarnation; and in fact the incorporation of Platonic categories by the Church Fathers has always rendered the Incarnation problematic.

Again our editorial argues that a developed natural philosophy and theology, which are open to mutual synthesis and to real contact with the transcendent, as envisaged for instance by Vatican One in Dei Filius, can help to free our intellectual vision from the smothering effects of a too Platonic conception of the absoluteand infinite.

A parallel to Paul's conception of the pre-existence is found by some in Philo's Platonic conception of the ideal Man [see De Leg.

Indeed, whether we look to the teachers of ancient Israel or to the Platonic academy or to Augustine at Cassiciacum or to the medieval university or to Pico's disputatious Florence or to the small colleges of early nineteenth - century America, we find learning flourishing in communities formed by the conscious practice of spiritual virtues.

A lot of his language about objects, or «eternal objects» ingressing into the process, sounds Platonic, as though they came from «outside,» but I think there is more possibility of a tenable interpretation if we take it that one patterned event passes on into another either by repetition or modification.

Another essential facet in the historical background for Platonic theism is the definitive fixing of the meaning for being by Parmenides of Elea.

Platonic and Pythagorian modes of thinking spread Greek ideas and culture throughout the Hellenic world, introducing the mideastern peoples conquered by Alexander the Great to many of the concepts that were unique to Greek thinkers of the time (and vice versa).

But the metaphysical reason for the possibility of similarity and difference, according to the Platonic realist, consists in the fact that value can be ingredient with multiplicity in different parts of a process only by virtue of different structures or patterns.

It seems to exhaust the theoretical options to say that such an answer must be achieved by reference to either: 1) the categories themselves; 2) the noncategorial aspects of events; 3) both categorial and non categorial aspects of events; 4) some alleged factor (e.g., a God, Platonic Forms, «nothing») other than the categorial aspects of events; or 5) by nothing (i.e., by no alleged factor at all, including «nothing»), so that the ultimate issue is meaningless or at least unanswerable in principle.

Judging from the history of the concept of spirit and of cognition, at least for all thinkers of a Platonic bent, specifically Aristotle himself, 4 it becomes clear that the problem of consciousness by no means lies in the foreground.

This Platonic mode of explanation (if the mature Plato did sanction such an approach) seems as misguided as an attempt to explain the motions of football players by reference to the «coherence» or «formal possibility» of the interactions of their shadows.

To men like Philo, a contemporary of Jesus Platonic philosophy was at one with Old Testament doctrine, and this difficult syncretism was achieved by so allegorizing even the «Books of Moses» as to find Platonic ideas there.

If the bishops and other negative absolutists would speak of tradition, let them speak of it in its full ambiguity and subtlety, instead of acting as though the tradition were a simplistic, Platonic negative floating through time untouched by contradiction, nuance or complexity.

The LA real estate developer and author of Family By Choice: Platonic Partnered Parenting, realized when she was 18 that she didn't want to spend a lot of time looking for a soul mate; she just wanted to have a kid.

A year goes by, my relationship with my ex ends and I post a bulletin about something I'm cooking for dinner and he invites himself over for a platonic date to learn to cook.

Experience the distinct teaching methods used by our dedicated faculty to bring challenging subject matters, such as nature studies in elementary school and platonic solids in middle school, to life.

Rachel Hope, author of Family By Choice: Platonic Partnered Parenting, has two children, now 24 and six, with two platonic friends, and hopes to have another one day with a still - unknPlatonic Partnered Parenting, has two children, now 24 and six, with two platonic friends, and hopes to have another one day with a still - unknplatonic friends, and hopes to have another one day with a still - unknown dad.

This feat may be accomplished at least in part, Koch says, by cells that represent not just this or that particular image of Rocky but «the platonic ideal of Rocky.»