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synonyms for platonists

  • dreamer
  • optimist
  • visionary
  • Platonist
  • enthusiast
  • escapist
  • radical
  • romantic
  • romanticist
  • seer
  • stargazer
  • theorizer
  • transcendentalist
  • utopian
  • romancer
On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to platonists, such as: dreamer, optimist, visionary, enthusiast, escapist, and platonist.

antonyms for platonists

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  • pragmatist
  • realist
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How to use platonists in a sentence

The earlier fathers of the church, the greater part of whom were Platonists, imitated this method of Plato's.
A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY, VOLUME 1 (OF 10)FRANOIS-MARIE AROUET (AKA VOLTAIRE)
Justin discourses on that topic after the manner of the Platonists.
THE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS, VOLUME 03VARIOUS
Probably the people who originated the tale were not Platonists, any more than Pandarus was all Aristotelian.
MYTH, RITUAL, AND RELIGION, VOL. 1ANDREW LANG
What has been said so far applies very well to the cosmic Intelligence, the νοῦς of the Neo-Platonists.
A HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL JEWISH PHILOSOPHYISAAC HUSIK
This, as we know, is the opinion of the Neo-Platonists; and Israeli comes very close to it as we saw before (p. 6).
A HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL JEWISH PHILOSOPHYISAAC HUSIK
The Platonists even thought them full of mysterious and recondite wisdom.
PLATO AND THE OTHER COMPANIONS OF SOKRATES, 3RD ED. VOLUME III (OF 4)GEORGE GROTE
But such was not the light in which they appeared either to the ancient Platonists, or to critics earlier than the last century.
PLATO AND THE OTHER COMPANIONS OF SOKRATES, 3RD ED. VOLUME III (OF 4)GEORGE GROTE
There is no danger of the modern commentators on the Timaeus falling into the absurdities of the Neo-Platonists.
TIMAEUSPLATO
Platonists find it in an abstract Idea of Good, a Universalwhich precludes particulars.
THE WORLDS GREATEST BOOKS, VOLUME XIII.VARIOUS
As a philosopher he is to be classed among the Platonists, yet with a predominance of the prevailing Orientalism.
HISTORY OF THE INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPE, VOLUME I (OF 2)JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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