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    99250; 23.70806 The Academy (Ancient Greek: Ἀκαδημία, romanized: Akadēmía), variously known as Plato's Academy, the Platonic Academy, and the Academic School...
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  • The Platonic Academy of Florence (Italian: Accademia Platonica di Firenze) was an informal discussion group which formed around Marsilio Ficino in the...
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    Plato (redirect from Platonic dialectic)
    theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy, and was the founder of the Platonic Academy, a philosophical school in Athens where Plato taught the doctrines...
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  • Academy of Athens may refer to: Platonic Academy, founded by Plato in c. 387 BC Academy of Athens (modern), Greece's national academy, established in...
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    considered by Ficino to be his successor as the head of the Florentine Platonic Academy. Diacceto's student, Giovanni di Bardo Corsi, produced a short biography...
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    abstract object. In a narrower sense, the term might indicate the doctrine of Platonic realism, a form of mysticism. The central concept of Platonism, a distinction...
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  • Neoplatonism (redirect from Neo-Platonic)
    Neoplatonism is a version of Platonic philosophy that emerged in the 3rd century AD against the background of Hellenistic philosophy and religion. The...
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    Renaissance, Cosimo de' Medici took a personal interest in the new Platonic Academy that he determined to re-establish in 1439, centered on the marvellous...
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  • specifically metaphysics, the theory of Forms, theory of Ideas, Platonic idealism, or Platonic realism is a theory widely credited to the Classical Greek philosopher...
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  • teachers or research staff school of philosophers associated with the Platonic Academy in ancient Greece The Academic, Irish indie rock band "Academic", song...
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    that Euclid studied at the Platonic Academy and later taught at the Musaeum; he is regarded as bridging the earlier Platonic tradition in Athens with the...
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  • organizational models French regional academies overseeing education Military academy Platonic Academy, the original Academy founded by the philosopher Plato...
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  • In geometry, a Platonic solid is a convex, regular polyhedron in three-dimensional Euclidean space. Being a regular polyhedron means that the faces are...
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    was. He would have met them at the workshop of Verrocchio or at the Platonic Academy of the Medici. Florence was ornamented by the works of artists such...
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    such a frame of mind. Around 266 BCE, Arcesilaus became head of the Platonic Academy. He adopted skepticism as a central tenet of Platonism, making Platonism...
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    double-arched Dipylon Gate (also known as the Thriasian Gate) and on to the Platonic Academy a few miles away. State graves were built on either side of the Dipylon...
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  • Taylor Roman Ingarden Related topics Platonism (in the Renaissance) Platonic Academy Middle Platonism Kabbalah Spirituality Isma'ilism Druze Allegorical...
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    An academy school in England is a state-funded school which is directly funded by the Department for Education and independent of local authority control...
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  • China by Emperor Wu.[citation needed] Carneades retires as head of the Platonic Academy and is replaced by Polemarchus of Nicomedia. Simon Thassi defeats an...
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    a nude Venus. For Plato – and so for the members of the Florentine Platonic Academy – Venus had two aspects: she was an earthly goddess who aroused humans...
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    South agora and pool in Aphrodisias, Turkey Forum (Roman) Agorism Platonic Academy Egora (electronic agora) Caves, R. W. (2004). Encyclopedia of the City...
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    opened to the public in 2009. School of Aristotle Lyceum movement Platonic Academy Cynosarges Theophrastus Morison, William. "The Lyceum". Internet Encyclopedia...
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    it was unavailable even to Simplicius and the other scholars at the Platonic Academy in Athens. Diogenes Laërtius wrote that the book was divided into three...
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    subsequently did the Greek philosophical traditions become more diverse. The Platonic Academy was arguably a Pythagorean cenobitic institution, outside the city...
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    what is variously called the Second or Middle or New Academy – the phase of the Platonic Academy in which it embraced philosophical skepticism. Arcesilaus...
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  • Ancient higher-learning institutions Platonic Academy Lyceum Monastic school Cathedral school Medieval university Schools imposed on indigenous peoples...
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  • Λακύδης ὁ Κυρηναῖος), Academic Skeptic philosopher, was head of the Platonic Academy at Athens in succession to Arcesilaus from 241 BC. He was forced to...
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  • the 3rd century BC. Following the death of Timon of Phlius, When the Platonic Academy became the primary advocate of skepticism dating from around 266 BC...
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    Ancient higher-learning institutions Platonic Academy Lyceum Monastic school Cathedral school Medieval university Schools imposed on indigenous peoples...
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  • early 330s BCE by an unknown author working in the ambit of the post-Platonic Academy and/or the Aristotelian Peripatos (Lyceum) at Athens. Scylax was from...
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