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Notice that such a property introduces a normative element in the Platonist picture, since some properties of a work are properties which address criteria for the correctness of instances of that work.

Bergmann and Brower, by contrast, attack, not the second, but the first component of a Platonist theory of predication.

But is this work really therefore Platonist? Of course not, if "Platonist" is to mean "idealist." For, as Puchner rightly notes, Brecht was famous for "dedication to historical materialism" (111).

In our H 6 passage, he identifies certain Platonist commitments and argues that they lead to the absurd conclusion that neither man nor men are unities (and thus not genuine substances).

The intellectual traditions lying behind these developments (Ovid, of course, but more broadly ideas derived from Stoic or Platonist philosophy, from Christian or Jewish theology) receive thorough discussion, and we gain a clear picture of the diverse literary forms employed in the development of this theme of predilection: allegory and allegorical commentary, dialogue, lyric or didactic verse (and this list of genres could certainly be extended).

Second, R.'s critical appreciation of Aristotle (and ultimately of Aquinas) from this generally Platonic perspective will challenge theists (and nontheists) who consider themselves more Aristotelian than Platonist in their moral sympathies.

In naming them together, I do not wish to obscure the essential differences between them which arose, first and foremost, from the fact that Shestov struggled against Greek philosophy, whereas Weil was fundamentally a Platonist. Nevertheless, even thoug h she often quarreled with Pascal, she was closest to his thinking, and as for Shestov, he, too, praised Pascal and also Luther.

Thus we may contrast Platonist theories such as those of Wolterstorff, Levinson and Kivy[1] with Nominalist theories such as those of Goodman.[2] For the Platonists the work of music exists independently of the performance and the notation, indeed Wolterstorff is enough of a Platonist to think that all possible works of music pre-exist their notation.

Emerson, I think, took his sense of "lustre" not just from Plutarch but from the 17th-century Cambridge Platonist Ralph Cudworth's True Intellectual System of the Universe, where the lustre is associated with the Neoplatonic image of the astral body, the subtle envelope that intervenes between soul and material body.

Cynical Suspicions and Platonist Pretentions: A Critique of Contemporary Political Theory

The Middle Platonist Compendiosa Expositio gives dialogue-by-dialogue summaries of doctrines allegedly expounded in Plato's works.

Writing for anyone interested in intellectual history in late antiquity, Kalvesmaki (Byzantine studies, Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard U.) argues that the second-century Christian debate over numbers eventually influenced the Platonist tradition that had originally inspired it.

Dobell marshals evidence for this view from a number of Augustine's early writings, wherein, he argues, one finds a number of Platonist commitments.