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 2008

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

Matthew Yglesias » Linker Replies 2007

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 2007

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 2008

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 Lawlor, Leonard 2006

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 JOHN FISHER 1968

Philosophically as well as poetically his Platonism was a muddied stream.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas JOHN FISHER 1968

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 Israel Abrahams 1891

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

Stones Cry Out 2008

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 2009