Platonism

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Platonism is the distinction between reality which is perceptible but not intelligible and that which is intelligible but imperceptible. Plato believed that true reality is that which is unseen. What is seen is a metaphor. Life is allegorical. Some Greco-Roman philosophical traditions emphasized salvation from the body that developed from a certain tradition of received Platonism.

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