Sentences with phrase «platonic realm»

While the manga - style characters continue to appear in Mr.'s work, their significance has shifted from playing up lolicon — the fetishization of young, fictional female characters — toward a more platonic realm, known as moe, or love for an icon that does not carry sexual associations.

Eternal objects form a realm — a Platonic realm?

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.

Not exact matches

The Old Testament reflects not at all Platonic teaching about the soul as imprisoned in the flesh and escaping at death to the realm of pure spirit, but rather Egyptian teaching, with its hope of a physical resurrection.

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.

Whitehead so emphatically repudiates the Platonic tendency to think of the realm of forms as constituting a superior, self - sufficient type of existence, that he interprets even the propositions of mathematics as statements about certain possible forms of process.

For Whitehead value is not something which exists off in a Platonic heaven, off in a realm of form.

Throughout analysis, Whitehead cautions, we should remember that we are entirely in the realm of possibility — that is, the «cuts» we make (as in later Platonic dialectic4) are only selections among many possible analytic «cuts.»

In Platonic philosophy eros meant the yearning of the soul for the realm of the divine.

As an antidualist Whitehead thoroughly rejects the Platonic notion that there exists somewhere a spiritual realm, immutable and superior to the world of body and matter.

Affirming a Platonic formal value does certainly undermine reductionist materialism, but it is not itself evidence of a realm in which exists the transcendent Creator.

He couches it in Platonic terms of a distinction between the sensible and the intelligible realms, as with most scholasticism across the centuries.

Penrose theorizes that there exists at the Planck scale a realm of Platonic ideals that influence the workings of our mind.

Of course Aristotelian logic and science opposes all that Platonic - like dual reality / dual logic stuff; the Aristotelian approach being just secular logic and secular observations... Aristotelian approach says: no higer «a priori» validity, no higher «ideal» realm, or higher «ideal» logic.