... nothing could be more ‘Platonic’ thanexemplarist doctr ines. But what, I would ask, is the Platonic characterof such doctrines? Well, there is a doctrine of Ideas and of things par-ticipating ... the Creationof the CosmosI. ‘EXEMPLARISM’St Maximus’ doctrine of divine logoi, or—to be more precise—ofθ„ÔÈ ÙÔF ÂrÌ·È, is a kind of doctrine of Ideas. This is how I understandthe important ... called the doctrine that the world is createdfrom divine Ideas ‘exemplarism’. This term is used, for instance, inF. Copleston’s A History of Philosophy to denote the philosophic-al doctrine of...