Platonists
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the Platonists
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Philosophical school whose doctrine on the soul's custody is endorsed against the Stoics.
Brutus, following the opinions of the Platonists, had formerly condemned the death of Cato, whom he himself afterwards imitated.
In opposition to the Stoics, and others, who admitted the dread of servitude, sickness, or any other calamity, or even the ambitious love of glory to be a just cause of voluntary death, in opposition to them, the Platonists justly maintain, that the soul must be retained in the custody of the body, from which it cannot be released, but at the command of him, who gave it.
It is an opinion of the Platonists, repeated by Apuleius, that “impunity and the delay of reproof are more severe and pernicious to an offender than any punishment whatsoever,” and, in the words of Tacitus, “violent disorders must be encountered with remedies proportionably strong.
Apologeticum
Followers of Plato, holding God incorporeal, provident, and immanent within the world.
And the Platonists hold him to be careful of things;
the Platonists within the world, to remain, after the example of a pilot, within that which he governs.
De Anima
Followers of Plato who argue the soul cannot be a body because it is not moved from without or within like bodies.
Now the soul will not be moved from without, as being not inanimate, nor from within, as being itself rather that which moves the body.
De Carnis Resurrectione
Followers of Plato cited alongside Pythagoras and Empedocles as affirming the soul's immortality.
Yet it is enough that the philosophy of Pythagoras and Empedocles and the Platonists, no smaller, cries out to the contrary that the soul is immortal — indeed they go further and most nearly affirm that it may return into bodies, though not into the same ones, though not into human bodies only, so that Euphorbus is reckoned to pass into Pythagoras, and Homer into a peacock.