Sentences with phrase «platonic sense»

The scale of some of his forged iron and steel pieces is something to consider along with the works» refined Platonic sense of form.

But whether universals are relevant to the world makes no difference to the universals, conceived in this Platonic sense.

The dead in Hades, as the Iliad and Odyssey pictured them, were not souls, in the later Platonic sense, but vaporous bodies.

I suspect it has to do with incarnation, history, personal story — you know, stuff that actually happens as opposed to timeless truth in the Platonic sense.

Concerning the survival of the human personality after death, whether in the Platonic sense of the immortality of the soul or the biblical sense of the resurrection of the body, Hartshorne is at times agnostic and at others quite skeptical.

In a platonic sense, we tend to go to church with people who are like us.

This involves no sexual expression whatsoever just someone to relate to in a very platonic sense.

Not exact matches

For Gödel, Platonic realism made the most sense of the situation.

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).

2) As such it is withdrawn from the world, where «the world» is understood in its (originally Platonic, later Christian) sense as the locus of competition and struggle for wealth, power, prestige, and status.

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

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.

As we have had occasion to use the term in previous discussion, based on its usual Platonic connotation it did not mean the «erotic» in a sexual sense, but any longing for what is prized.

This is inevitable because no system born of the fateful Platonic error can entirely recover any adequate sense of the difference between being and beings.

Platonic love in its modern popular sense is an affectionate relationship into which the sexual element does not enter, especially in cases where one might easily assume otherwise.

Unlike passion, intimacy can be a solely platonic feeling — it's that sense of familiarity and friendship that comes with meeting someone you really get on with, someone you can be your true self around.

Nowadays we talk about platonic relationships in a somewhat cynical sense; is an entirely amicable tie really achievable between and man and a woman, or will sex always enter into the equation?

5ft5» medium build, good sense of humour looking for platonic relationship.

And yet all this surprisingly violent mayhem has been nestled into a brisk, corny, even vaguely family - friendly action comedy about the platonic love affair between The Rock and his best friend, an orphaned, albino gorilla with what you might call an off - color sense of humor.