Platonism

• “One of the interesting repeated targets of Mr Taleb's scorn, which he terms Platonism, is one which is carried too far.”

  Stones Cry Out

• “Rorty would not say, for example, that Platonism is a “danger” for democracy.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Linker Replies

• “If 'laws' are real and independent of both the minds and matter they govern, then that's a statement of metaphysical Platonism, which is hardly an uncontroversial position.”

  Another predictable argument against front-loading

• “Your comment was to HeevenStevens, but I add my 2 cents, since I seem to be the only advocate (sort of) for "intelligent design" (which I'll call Platonism).”

  Valerie Tarico: Ben Stein: Front Man for Creationism's Manufactroversy

• “Simply, deconstruction is a criticism of Platonism, which is defined by the belief that existence is structured in terms of oppositions (separate substances or forms) and that the oppositions are hierarchical, with one side of the opposition being more valuable than the other.”

  Jacques Derrida

• “Much of what has been called Platonism did not originate with Plato, and, as is true with any man's thought, much of Plato's thought can be readily traced to those powerful influences to which he himself admitted.”

  Dictionary of the History of Ideas

• “Philosophically as well as poetically his Platonism was a muddied stream.”

  Dictionary of the History of Ideas

• “More calls Platonism the soul, and Cartesianism the body, of his own philosophy, which he applies to the explanation of the Law of Moses.”

  The Book of Delight and Other Papers

• “Platonism, that is essentially the use of abstraction, is ridiculed and dismissed repeatedly.”

  Stones Cry Out

• “This analysis would also apply in large part to other systems of thought reasonably close to Christianity- such as Platonism, neo-Platonism, Judaism but not secular Judaism, Islam, or Kantianism.”

  In which commentary becomes copy-and-paste

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