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TepG asked in Society & CultureLanguages · 1 decade ago

help What is platonism?

Explain to me shortly what it means.

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  • David
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    Platonism is the philosophy of Plato or the name of other philosophical systems considered closely derived from it. In a narrower sense the term might indicate the doctrine of Platonic realism. The central concept of Platonism is the Theory of Forms: the transcendent, perfect archetypes, of which objects in the everyday world are imperfect copies.

    Platonism differed from the Pre-Socratic philosophers who variously described the ultimate cause of the universe to be fire, air or water etc. In distinction to their naturalistic philosophies Plato taught that God was the ultimate reality.

    The basics are that what we see can be compared to shadows on a wall. We cannot see the forms casting the shadows because we are imperfect beings. The best that we can do is to look at the shadows and try to interpret what the true forms really are based on the shadows.

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    5 years ago

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Gee, how painful! At least it must seem like a pain even though there is only pain in your mind. I would recommend that you become a lumber jack and work in felling the trees in some very quiet forest. You can pretend you are not there, which will be very easy since the forest is not really there then you must not be in the forest, and listen to the trees fall. You will be cured in no time, plus with all the new muscles more girls will be attracted to you. Then you can ask the girls if they would like to fell your tree. Oh, bummer, I just noticed you are a woman. There is no cure for women.

  • Rain
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Platonism

    the philosophy of Plato and his followers, especially the doctrine that physical objects are imperfect and impermanent representations of unchanging ideas, and that knowledge is the mental apprehension of these ideas or universals.

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    Avoid Kant like the plague, maintain a healthy diet of monism, and ask your local philosopher for a prescription of Aristotle and Heidegger. Apply three times daily to the brain.

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