His philosophy is a mixture of pantheistic ontology, rationalism, platonism and traditionalism. |
The Romantic movement renewed the interest in the mad genius that had been cultivated by Renaissance Platonism but dampened by the age of reason. |
Some later commentators claim that by making this skeptical turn, Arcesilaus abandoned Platonism. |
They explicitly disavow the classical philosophies of formalism, logicism, Platonism, intuitionism, and social constructivism. |
This solution is the ancestor of many versions of platonism in mathematics. |
But the advocate of platonism may find these easier to defend than the confirmational holism the standard argument invokes. |