* Platonic Theology: A long ( six volumes in the Budé edition ) systematic work, using evidence from Plato's dialogues to describe the character of the various divine orders

* Marsilio Ficino starts to work on " Platonic Theology ".

* Marsilio Ficino finishes his work on " Platonic Theology ".

Marsilio Ficino ( Platonic Theology 17. 3-4 ), for one, argued that Plato's references to metempsychosis were intended allegorically.

Among Whewell's other works — too numerous to mention — were popular writings such as the third Bridgewater Treatise Astronomy and General Physics considered with reference to Natural Theology ( 1833 ), and the essay, Of the Plurality of Worlds ( 1853 ), in which he argued against the probability of life on other planets, and also the Platonic Dialogues for English Readers ( 1850 – 1861 ), the Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England ( 1852 ), the essay, Of a Liberal Education in General, with particular reference to the Leading Studies of the University of Cambridge ( 1845 ), the important edition and abridged translation of Hugo Grotius, De jure belli ac pacis ( 1853 ), and the edition of the Mathematical Works of Isaac Barrow ( 1860 ).

* Platonic Theology, Volume 1, Marsilio Ficino, ed.

This Apophatic Theology ( Negative theology ) mode of thinking about God is found throughout Gnosticism, Vedantic Hinduism, Platonic and Aristotelean theology, and Eastern Orthodox theology as well.

William Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks, it seems to me, have a penetrating insight into the way in which this control is effected: `` For if we say poetry is to talk of beauty and love ( and yet not aim at exciting erotic emotion or even an emotion of Platonic esteem ) and if it is to talk of anger and murder ( and yet not aim at arousing anger and indignation ) -- then it may be that the poetic way of dealing with these emotions will not be any kind of intensification, compounding, or magnification, or any direct assault upon the affections at all.

Another way of making the point is that if the Platonic world were to disappear, it would make no difference to the ability of mathematicians to generate proofs, etc., which is already fully accountable in terms of physical processes in their brains.

One line of defense is to maintain that this is false, so that mathematical reasoning uses some special intuition that involves contact with the Platonic realm.

The cube can also be called a regular hexahedron and is one of the five Platonic solids.

In the Timaeus, Plato's major cosmological dialogue, the Platonic solid he associated with fire was the tetrahedron which is formed from four triangles and contains the least volume with the greatest surface area.

In the Timaeus, his major cosmological dialogue, the Platonic solid associated with air is the octahedron which is formed from eight equilateral triangles.

In the Timaeus, his major cosmological dialogue, the Platonic solid associated with water is the icosahedron which is formed from twenty equilateral triangles.

Early Christian Dualism is largely based on Platonic Dualism ( See: Neoplatonism and Christianity ).

In geometry, a dodecahedron ( Greek δωδεκάεδρον, from δώδεκα, dōdeka " twelve " + ἕδρα hédra " base ", " seat " or " face ") is any polyhedron with twelve flat faces, but usually a regular dodecahedron is meant: a Platonic solid.

The demiurge is a concept from the Platonic, Neopythagorean, Middle Platonic, and Neoplatonic schools of philosophy for an artisan-like figure responsible for the fashioning and maintenance of the physical universe.

This is accordingly the definition of the demiurge in the Platonic ( ca.

Plotinus sought to reconcile Aristotle's energeia with Plato's Demiurge, which, as Demiurge and mind ( nous ), is a critical component in the ontological construct of human consciousness used to explain and clarify substance theory within Platonic realism ( also called idealism ).

Plotinus ' form of Platonic idealism is to treat the Demiurge, nous as the contemplative faculty ( ergon ) within man which orders the force ( dynamis ) into conscious reality.

So the regular polyhedra — the Platonic solids and Kepler-Poinsot polyhedra — are arranged into dual pairs, with the exception of the regular tetrahedron which is self-dual.

In its definitions Euclid follows the Platonic tradition that vision is caused by discrete rays which emanate from the eye.

It is one of the five Platonic solids.

According to Daniel Boyarin, the underlying distinction between religion and ethnicity is foreign to Judaism itself, and is one form of the dualism between spirit and flesh that has its origin in Platonic philosophy and that permeated Hellenistic Judaism.

This Platonic realism, however, in denying full reality to the material world, differs sharply with modern forms of idealism, which generally assert the reality of the external, physical world and which in some versions deny the reality of ideals.

Platonic form can be illustrated by contrasting a material triangle with an ideal triangle.

Philo followed the Platonic distinction between imperfect matter and perfect idea, and therefore intermediary beings were necessary to bridge the enormous gap between God and the material world.

In A Radical Jew, Boyarin argues that Paul of Tarsus combined the life of Jesus with Greek philosophy to reinterpret the Hebrew Bible in terms of the Platonic opposition between the ideal ( which is real ) and the material ( which is false ); see also Paul of Tarsus and Judaism.

In other words, by appealing to the Platonic distinction between the material and the ideal, Paul showed how the spirit of Christ could provide all people a way to worship God — the God who had previously been worshipped only by Jews, and Jewish Proselytes, although Jews claimed that He was the one and only God of all ( see, for example, Romans 8: 1-4 ; II Corinthians 3: 3 ; Galatians 3: 14 ; Philippians 3: 3 ).

Platonic philosophers were able to theorize about the forms by looking at objects in the material world, and imagining what the " Perfect " tree, or " Perfect " man would be.

They are distinct from the Platonic solids, which are composed of only one type of polygon meeting in identical vertices, and from the Johnson solids, whose regular polygonal faces do not meet in identical vertices.

They can all be made via Wythoff constructions from the Platonic solids with tetrahedral, octahedral and icosahedral symmetry.

The first entry, from 1586, shows the word was at one time used in the context of discussions of Platonic theories of knowledge.

For example, the view that numbers are Platonic objects was revived by Kurt Gödel as a result of certain puzzles that he took to arise from the phenomenological accounts.

In this he claimed to reveal Plato's true meaning, a doctrine he learned from Platonic tradition that did not appear outside the academy or in Plato's text.

Before Numenius of Apamea and Plotinus ' Enneads, no Platonic works ontologically clarified the Demiurge from the allegory in Plato's Timaeus.

Kepler's Platonic solid model of the Solar system from Mysterium Cosmographicum ( 1600 )

Most of the Johnson solids can be constructed from the first few ( pyramids, cupolae, and rotunda ), together with the Platonic and Archimedean solids, prisms, and antiprisms.

First, he logically separates the Platonic world of constant change from the formally knowable world of fixed physical objects.

There are five Platonic solids ; their names are derived from their numbers of faces.

Regardless of their description, Platonic realism holds that universals do exist in a broad, abstract sense, although not at any spatial or temporal distance from people's bodies.

Plato's doctrine of recollection, however, addresses such criticism by saying that souls are born with the concepts of the forms, and just have to be reminded of those concepts from back before birth, when the souls were in close contact with the forms in the Platonic heaven.

In these commentaries he presents his own philosophical system as a faithful interpretation of Plato, and in this he did not differ from other Neoplatonists, as he considered the Platonic texts to be divinely inspired ( ho theios Platon -- The divine Plato, inspired by God ) and therefore that they spoke often of things under a veil, hiding the truth from the philosophically uninitiate.