Platonism

In English philosophy too, many affinities may be traced, not only in the works of the Cambridge Platonists, but in great original writers like Berkeley or Coleridge, to Plato and his ideas.

A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers.

The genius of the Platonists is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

Beware of such an one, I say; your whales must be seen before they can be killed; and this sunken-eyed young Platonist will tow you ten wakes round the world, and never make you one pint of sperm the richer.

In morals he was a profest Platonist, and in religion he inclined to be an Aristotelian.

He had read somewhere that every man was born a Platonist, an Aristotelian, a Stoic, or an Epicurean; and the history of George Henry Lewes (besides telling you that philosophy was all moonshine) was there to show that the thought of each philospher was inseparably connected with the man he was.

The former was indeed not a Platonist, nor strictly speaking an Aristotelian - nor did he, like the modern Leibnitz, waste those precious hours which might be employed in the invention of a fricasée or, facili gradu, the analysis of a sensation, in frivolous attempts at reconciling the obstinate oils and waters of ethical discussion.

Their topics include acting and knowing before Plato: on Solon's theodicy, self-knowledge and politics in the Alcibiades I, learning from the gods: episteme and politics in Plato's Menexenus, whether the Theaetetus digression is an ethical interlude in an epistemological dialogue, kompsoi logoi: some remarks on Plato's linguistic conventionalism and its ethical implications, the telos of assimilation to god and the conflict between theoria and praxis in Plato and the middle Platonists, and the theory of mixtures and its ethical implications: the role and responsibility of the Galenic physician.

(46) See William Lane Craig, "Why Are (Some) Platonists So Insouciant?" Philosophy 86, no.

points out that starting with the Cambridge Platonists, philosophers

In attending most closely to sympathy in the writings of Sir Kenelm Digby, Margaret Cavendish, thomas Hobbes, John Milton, the Cambridge Platonists, the third earl of Shaftesbury, David Fordyce, James Thomson, and David Hume, Lobis masterfully unravels the intricate and evolving connections and tensions between the discourses of "universal and magical sympathy" and "interpersonal and moral sympathy" in their works (3).