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  1. Neoplatonism

    Neoplatonism is a version of Platonic philosophy that emerged in the 3rd century AD against the background of Hellenistic philosophy and religion. The term does not encapsulate a set of ideas as much as a series of thinkers. Among the common ideas it maintains is monism, the doctrine that all of reality can be derived from a single principle, "the One". Neoplatonism began with Ammonius Saccas and his student Plotinus and stretched to the sixth century. After Plotinus there were three distinct periods in the history of neoplatonism: the work of his student Porphyry; that of Iamblichus; and the period in the fifth and sixth centuries, when the academies in Alexandria and Athens flourished. Neoplatonism had an enduring influence on the subsequent history of Western philosophy and religion. In the Middle Ages, Neoplatonic ideas were studied and discussed by Christian, Jewish, and Muslim thinkers. Wikipedia

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  2. 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 ...
  3. en.wikipedia.org

    Neoplatonism is a version of Platonic philosophy that emerged in the 3rd century AD against the background of Hellenistic philosophy and religion. [1] [note 1] [note 2] The term does not encapsulate a set of ideas as much as a series of thinkers.Among the common ideas it maintains is monism, the doctrine that all of reality can be derived from a single principle, "the One".
  4. worldhistoryedu.com

    Jan 31, 2025Neoplatonism is a profound philosophical movement that emerged in the 3rd century AD, flourishing against the vibrant backdrop of Hellenistic philosophy and diverse religious traditions. Unlike a singular set of doctrines, Neoplatonism is best understood as a lineage of thinkers unified by their reinterpretation of Plato 's ideas, with a ...
  5. 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
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  6. 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 ...
  7. link.springer.com

    The division of Ancient Platonism into Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism is a fairly new one. The conceptual foundation of this division was cemented in Jacob Brucker's pioneering Historia critica philosophiae (1742-1767). In the 1770s and 1780s, the term 'Neoplatonism' was coined on the basis of Brucker's analysis.
  8. sydneyunitarians.org

    "Neoplatonism" is actually a modern term which has been used to designate a tradition of philosophy that arose primarily in the third-century AD, and which persisted until shortly after the closing of the Platonic Academy in Athens in 529 AD by the-then Byzantine Roman emperor Justinian I. Neoplatonists were heavily
  9. Dec 23, 2024Platonism - Neoplatonists, Philosophy, Mysticism: Porphyry (c. 234-c. 305 ce), a devout disciple of Plotinus and a careful editor of his works, occupied a special position in the development of later Neoplatonism. In some ways his thought paralleled that of the later pagan Neoplatonists, but in others it quite opposed them. The most distinctive features of his thought seem to have been an ...
  10. encyclopedia.com

    NEOPLATONISM. Neoplatonism is a modern term that refers to the philosophical movement that dominated the intellectual life of the Roman Empire from the third to the sixth centuries c.e.; its most prominent representatives were the pagan philosophers Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Proclus. These thinkers strove to elucidate ambiguities in Plato's philosophy with insights drawn from ...
  11. academic.oup.com

    It shows that late ancient philosophy did not simply embrace and borrow from the major philosophical traditions of earlier antiquity—Platonism, Aristotelianism, Stoicism—by providing marginal comments on widely known philosophical texts. Rather, Neoplatonism offered a set of highly original and innovative insights into the nature of being ...

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