The title of Michael Drayton’s Ideas Mirrour (1594) has often been seen as encapsulating a Petrarchan and Neoplatonic poetics adopted by most Elizabethan sonneteers countered or subverted the canonical poets. This essay suggests that such an interpretation misrepresents complexity sonnet sequences in general particular, reassessing Petrarchism alleged Neo-platonism well revising Thomas P. Roche...

Gottlob Frege is often called a "platonist". In connection with his philosophy we can talk about platonism concerning three kinds of entities: numbers, or logical objects more generally; concepts, or functions more generally; thoughts, or senses more generally. I will only be concerned about the first of these three kinds here, in particular about the natural numbers. I will also focus mostly o...

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The first half of the eighteenth century witnessed a resurgence Platonism in literature generally and theology Germany en Holland particular, because appeal Plato’s ideas held for distinction between immanent transcendental reality, man’s quest unity with Good, human soul as vehicle uniting God. Because most beings are preoccupied material things, Plato believed they need to have their thoughts...