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... Platonic letters and dialogues , especially Plato's cosmological Timaeus , to which he returns again and again for reference . Nevertheless Plotinus is sui generis ; his thought is rather a transformation than an extension of Plato . We ...
... Platonic letters and dialogues , especially Plato's cosmological Timaeus , to which he returns again and again for reference . Nevertheless Plotinus is sui generis ; his thought is rather a transformation than an extension of Plato . We ...
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... Platonic questions . In the philosophy of Ficino , Platonic and Plotinist doctrines are blended and fused with Christian ideas . Ficino accepted the traditional cosmology -- that is to say , the conception of a chain of being descending ...
... Platonic questions . In the philosophy of Ficino , Platonic and Plotinist doctrines are blended and fused with Christian ideas . Ficino accepted the traditional cosmology -- that is to say , the conception of a chain of being descending ...
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... Platonic disposition directly in such Cambridge exercises as Prolu- sion II and De Idea Platonica , indirectly , and probably unconsciously , in certain linguistic traits so habitual as to seem innate : the pervasive imagery of darkness ...
... Platonic disposition directly in such Cambridge exercises as Prolu- sion II and De Idea Platonica , indirectly , and probably unconsciously , in certain linguistic traits so habitual as to seem innate : the pervasive imagery of darkness ...
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Political theory and political practice | 34 |
Population economy and society in Miltons England | 72 |
The educational background | 102 |
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