1. plato.stanford.edu

    The term "Neoplatonism" refers to a philosophical school of thought that first emerged and flourished in the Greco-Roman world of late antiquity, roughly from the time of the Roman Imperial Crisis to the Arab conquest, i.e., the middle of the 3 rd to the middle of the 7 th century. In consequence of the demise of ancient materialist or corporealist thought such as Epicureanism and Stoicism ...
  2. britannica.com

    Dec 23, 2024Platonism - Neoplatonism, Philosophy, Mysticism: Neoplatonism is the modern name given to the form of Platonism developed by Plotinus in the 3rd century ce and modified by his successors. It came to dominate the Greek philosophical schools and remained predominant until the teaching of philosophy by pagans ended in the second half of the 6th century ce. It represents the final form of pagan ...
  3. britannica.com

    Jan 31, 2025Neoplatonism, the last school of Greek philosophy, given its definitive shape in the 3rd century ce by the one great philosophical and religious genius of the school, Plotinus. The ancient philosophers who are generally classified as Neoplatonists called themselves simple "Platonists," as did the
    Author:The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  4. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    https://iep.utm.edu › neoplato

    Neo-Platonism. Neo-platonism (or Neoplatonism) is a modern term used to designate the period of Platonic philosophy beginning with the work of Plotinus and ending with the closing of the Platonic Academy by the Emperor Justinian in 529 C.E. This brand of Platonism, which is often described as 'mystical' or religious in nature, developed outside the mainstream of Academic Platonism.
  5. dirpopulus.org

    Catholic Encyclopedia: Neo-Platonism Article by William Turner covering this movement's principal figures and later influence.; ISNS The International Society for Neoplatonic Studies is an organization for the study of Neoplatonism in all of its aspects from the ancient world through the Renaissance and into the modern world.; Bryn Mawr Classical Review 95.11.03 Bolton, Robert: Person, Soul ...
  6. philosophy.institute

    Nov 12, 2023After Plotinus, Neoplatonism flourished in various schools, notably in Rome, Syria, Pergamum, Alexandria, and Athens, each contributing uniquely to the development of Neoplatonic philosophy. Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Proclus are among the key figures who furthered Plotinus' ideas, integrating them with religious practices and philosophical inquiries.
  7. bmcr.brynmawr.edu

    Remes begins with an "Introduction" that situates Neoplatonism within the history of ancient philosophy. She briefly traces Neoplatonism's background in Middle Platonism, and offers an outline of five characteristics that differentiate Neoplatonism as a distinct tradition: (i) commitment to a first principle that is the ultimate source of ...
  8. academic.oup.com

    Neoplatonists insisted, to be sure, that mathematical numbers and figures were not abstracted from physical objects. But the qualities we find in physical objects were not reducible to them. There is a passage in Simplicius which compares the geometrical figures of the Timaeus to the hypotheses designed by the astronomers to save the ...
  9. academic.oup.com

    Although the syncretism of the preceding Platonic tradition is still evident in the Neoplatonism of Plotinus, Plotinus' system of reality, Hankinson argues, is a strikingly original achievement. ... Ancient Philosophy. Collection: ... Society Members. Society member access to a journal is achieved in one of the following ways:
  10. cambridge.org

    Neoplatonism long coexisted with Christianity in an empire that had featured Christianity as the official religion from the first Christian emperor Constantine (emperor 306-337 ce) onwards. At the beginning of the movement, that is, in the third century, the debate between the Neoplatonists and Christians, as well as Gnostics, was intense but ...

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