Platonic+Philosophy
91Albert the Great — (Albertus Magnus ) (c. 1200–1280) The dominant scholastic of the 13th century, and teacher of Aquinas . An encyclopaedic figure, known as the Doctor Universalis, Albert was prominent in the attempt to synthesize newly discovered Aristotelian and… …
92Arcesilaus — (c. 316–242 BC) The founder of the middle Academy of Athens, and the first to break with the older Platonic cosmologies in favour of scepticism . The running battle between the Academy and the Stoics started with his attack on the basis of… …
93beauty — The central place of beauty in Plato s thought is witnessed in the Dialogues Phaedrus and Symposium. The perception of beauty induces anamnesis , a recollection of previous acquaintance with the universal, the real, or, in a word, the forms .… …
94cardinal virtues — The Platonic cardinal virtues are courage, temperance, wisdom, and justice …
95Ficino, Marsilio — (1433–1499) The main representative of Platonism and Neoplatonism in Renaissance Florence, and the founder and head of the Academy of Florence . In 1484 his complete translation of Plato s dialogues was published. Ficino s commentaries and… …
96gnosticism — A doctrine of various sects combining Christian and pagan elements, that came into prominence around the 2nd century. Central importance attaches to ‘gnosis’, revealed but secret knowledge of God and of his nature, enabling those who possess it… …
97Grosseteste, Robert — (c. 1168–1253) English medieval philosopher. Born in Suffolk, Grosseteste gained a reputation in medicine, and after study in Paris became perhaps the first Chancellor of the university of Oxford. He taught the Franciscans in Oxford, and became… …
98Hippias — (c. 485–415 BC) A citizen of Elis, Hippias was a polymath and teacher, and is represented by Plato as a leading Sophist . He was a distinguished mathematician who probably discovered the quadratrix, the first curve other than the circle… …
99Murdoch, Iris Jean — (1919– ) English philosopher and novelist. Born in Dublin, and educated at Somerville College, Oxford, Murdoch became Fellow of St Anne s College, Oxford in 1948. She is best known as a novelist, but her philosophical writings begin with Sartre,… …
100natural law theory — The view of the status of law and morality especially associated with Aquinas and the subsequent scholastic tradition. More widely, any attempt to cement the moral and legal order together with the nature of the cosmos or the nature of human… …
