Word: platonist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Emerson A Professor Demos holds his half course on Plato, Philosophy 102. It is a model survey course by a top Platonist and an arousing thinker...
...field, Demos has an interesting position among modern philosophers. It is not a coincidence that his lectures on Plato seem to bring out much of the lecturer's own philosophy. Ideologically he is a Christian Platonist, and by this philosophical belief he has become the foremost authority on Plato, and propounds Platonism, tempered by Christianity, as a way of life...
Immediately after the last meeting in January, associate professor Lewis S. Feuer allegedly struck Platonist Joseph Katz, an assistant professor, during a heated extension of the argument which had raged throughout the meeting...
...sharp-eyed reporter for the New Statesman and Nation thought it was time to clear up the mystery of Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's "secret" four-day trip to England. Platonist Ben-Gurion was browsing through some rare Greek volumes in an Oxford book shop...
Enthusiasm, Knox decides, is basically the "revolt of Platonism against the Aristotelian mise en scene of traditional Christianity . . . Your Platonist, satisfied that he had formed his notion of God without the aid of syllogisms or analogies, will divorce reason from religion . . . the God who reveals Himself interiorly claims a wholly interior worship as his right" instead of observing traditional Christianity's balance of doctrine and emphasis...