Platonists

Santayana were sometimes classified as Platonists, be - cause they insisted in their teachings on the role of essences or “ideal beings.”

Dictionary of the History of Ideas ERNST MORITZ MANASSE 1968

From this thou oughtest to learn that doctrine taken from the Pythagoreans and Platonists, which is, that the soul makes the two progressions of ascent and descent, by the care that it has of itself and of matter; being moved by its own proper love of good, and being urged by the providence of fate.

The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the First An Ethical Poem Giordano Bruno 1574

“ancient theology” (prisca theologia); and according to Agrippa and Florentine philosophers such as Ficino, this wisdom was passed along by way of the Pythagoreans to Plato and his later disciples, whom the Renaissance called Platonists but modern scholarship calls Neoplatonists.

Loss of Faith 2009

The "Platonists" liberated him from error, but they could not loose him from the fetters of incontinence.

Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955

He remembers how the "Platonists" rescued him from this "materialism" and taught him how to think of spiritual and immaterial reality -- and so to become able to conceive of God in non-dualistic categories.

Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955

None of the "Platonists" was possessed of the same rare quality of genius as either of these two great philosophers, but they saw with clear insight the full bearing of both systems.

Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905

He holds forth on the nature of genius and ranges from the Upanishads to the Renaissance Platonists.

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

We, as humans, created the mathematics (mathematical Platonists, feel free to jump on this) and created the symbols, and we like to arrange them in ways we know how to work with.

The Language of Science – it’s “just a theory” 2010

We, as humans, created the mathematics (mathematical Platonists, feel free to jump on this) and created the symbols, and we like to arrange them in ways we know how to work with.

“On the Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton” by Erik Verlinde 2010

He holds forth on the nature of genius and ranges from the Upanishads to the Renaissance Platonists.

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011