A wise man will see that Aristotle
platonizes. By going one step farther back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.
Modern editors of Shakespeare's sonnets tend to
Platonize his use of the word, as in Sonnet 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end, Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
In other words, Lewis
Platonizes Child Christopher by supplying the true object to the longing he finds in Morris's work.
In the notebook, "XO: Reality and Illusion," and in the lecture "Aristocracy" (W 10.37), Emerson
platonizes: The terrible aristocracy that is in nature!