A take on the world in which things that exist in space and time are dependent on some divinity that is beyond nature.
Platonists recognize an intellective ‘beyond’ that transcends nature and orders and sustains the world. This is enchanted take that is open to transcendence. Things existing in space and time were dependent on some divinity that is beyond nature. Platonists intuited that reason, meaning, and goodness are gifted to nature from beyond nature. This allowed for the immanent world of nature, and yet things like wonder and mystery which transcend nature. It was this perspective that formed the bedrock of western civilization and was adopted by the early Christian church which saw Plato’s theory of forms as God’s thoughts.
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