... Reason Plato The Republic (Plato) Platonic forms property environmental political theory nature and politics Thomas More Utopia (More) agriculture Whether we are compelled or repelled by Plato’s arguments for the ideal city-state and just rulership, his dialogues have driven a significant...

... incessant repetition. Oresme’s friendship with the eminent composer Phillipe de Vitry (a leading exponent of the ars nova) also marked his astronomical views. Oresme argued that issues of incommensurability ruled out cosmic recurrences such as the Platonic Year and also ruled out...

... Beauty ≠ truth Bohr Niels Botticelli Sandro Einstein Albert Kepler Johannes United search for beauty Bellow Saul Newman Barnett Pollock Jackson Beauty idea of Chaos Order dichotomy Entropy Laws of Thermodynamics Order versus chaos Platonic solids Second law of thermodynamics Hofstadter...

... exerted an equal influence at the time. Modifying Plato and Aristotle, Plotinus creates a new synthesis. Where Aristotle idealized friendship as a circumscribed relation between special individuals, Plotinus reverts to the Platonic search for infinite goodness. Merging Neoplatonism Plotinus Porphyry...

... as it symbolizes worldly attitudes that are deemed heretical. At the same time, these two concepts reveal their Platonic parenthood through their similarities. It is the same case with the troubadour concept of “fin’ amors,” which fuses the Neoplatonism of the Middle East with elements of Christian mysticism...

... to combine Plato’s philosophy with the orthodox dogmas of the Christian faith. Ficino, who dedicated himself to Platonism and became a parish priest, aiming to be wholly Platonic and wholly Christian, searched for complementary truths in each tradition so that he could strengthen both. It can be argued...