The Rubenists broke with the Platonic tradition and defended illusion, makeup, and seduction.

According to James Hankins, it is sometimes asserted that the Hesychasts represent the native, "Platonic" tradition of the Orthodox Church, while their opponents represent the Aristotelian West.

In the Christian Platonic tradition, the reality of other worlds, and an overarching structure of great metaphysical and moral importance, has lent substance to the fantasy worlds of modern works.

Stoicism, like Aristotelianism is derived from Platonic and Socratic traditions.

He is also recognized for his farces (in Czech frašky), in the Platonic tradition.

His teacher was Ammonius Saccas and he is of the Platonic tradition.

In its definitions Euclid follows the Platonic tradition that vision is caused by discrete rays which emanate from the eye.

Portrayals of Psyche alone are often not confined to illustrating a scene from Apuleius, but may draw on the broader Platonic tradition in which Love was a force that shaped the self.

In this he claimed to reveal Plato's true meaning, a doctrine he learned from Platonic tradition that did not appear outside the academy or in Plato's text.

He was Heidegger's star graduate student in philosophy and one of the world's preeminent interpreters of Plato and the Platonic tradition.