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In this paragraph of Stoner by John Williams:

Walker nodded and began swiftly to speak. "I intend to trace Shelley's first rejection of Godwinian necessitarianism for a more or less Platonic ideal, in the 'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty,' through the mature use of that ideal, in Prometheus Unbound, as a comprehensive synthesis of his earlier atheism, radicalism, Christianity, and scientific necessitarianism, and ultimately to account for the decay of the ideal in such a late work as Hellas.

What does "rejection of Godwinian necessitarianism for a more or less Platonic ideal" mean?

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It means that Shelley stopped believing in Godwinian necessitarianism and started believung in a more or leas Platonic ideal.

It means that Shelly replace his belief in Godwinian necessitarianism with a different belief, belief in a more or less Platonic ideal.

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