# Thomas Taylor (1758–1835) ## Platonism [[Thomas Taylor “regarded Platonism as a workable philosophy of life, an illumined code of thought of an action, which studied and lived, would bring man to a noble and enlightened state.”|“Thomas Taylor believed the Platonic philosophy as preserved in the writings of its genuine disciples to be the nobles revelation of divine truths ever imparted to man.”]][^1] [[Thomas Taylor “regarded Platonism as a workable philosophy of life, an illumined code of thought of an action, which studied and lived, would bring man to a noble and enlightened state.”]][^2] [^1]: Manly P. Hall, ‘Introduction’, in *[[Taylor. 'The Theoretic Arithmetic of the Pythagoreans', 1816.|The Theoretic Arithmetic of the Pythagoreans]]* (London: J. Valpy, 1816; York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, 1972), p. v. Citations refer to the 1972 edition. p. v. [^2]: Manly P. Hall, ‘Introduction’, in *[[Taylor. 'The Theoretic Arithmetic of the Pythagoreans', 1816.|The Theoretic Arithmetic of the Pythagoreans]]*, p. v.