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    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 ...
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    Plotinus is generally regarded as the founder of Late Antique Platonism, sometimes termed "Neoplatonism", a school of thought that, while claiming to be the inheritor of the long tradition of ancient Greek rationalism rooted in the period of Presocratic philosophy, is also foreshadowing some of the cultural developments that would take ...
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    Plotinus (204/5 - 270 C.E.), is generally regarded as the founder of Neoplatonism. He is one of the most influential philosophers in antiquity after Plato and Aristotle. The term 'Neoplatonism' is an invention of early 19 th century European scholarship and indicates the penchant of historians for dividing 'periods' in history. In ...
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    Carter, Jason W., 2022, "Fatalism and False Futures in De Interpretatione 9", Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 63: 49-88. Castagnoli, Luca, 2010, Ancient Self-Refutation: The Logic and History of the Self-Refutation Argument From Democritus to Augustine, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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    He is sometimes claimed as a highly important promulgator of the late ancient branch of Platonism (usually called 'Neoplatonism') rather than as an original philosopher. The former claim is certainly true: he applied Neoplatonic doctrines to traditional pagan religion and myths and was in many respects a more extrovert thinker interested in ...
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    He also was the first Platonist to comment on the Chaldean Oracles, a pagan religious text in verse compiled in the 2 nd century AD that the later Neoplatonists took for a divine revelation. It is a characteristic of post-Iamblichean Neoplatonism (330 AD onwards) that religion, religious rites and even magic (theurgy) were taken to be an ...
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    Plotinus (204/5 -- 270 C.E.), is generally regarded as the founder of Neoplatonism. He is one of the most influential philosophers in antiquity after Plato and Aristotle. The term 'Neoplatonism' is an invention of early 19 th century European scholarship and indicates the penchant of historians for dividing 'periods' in history. In this ...
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    Iamblichus (ca. 242-ca. 325) was a Syrian Neoplatonist and disciple of Porphyry of Tyre, the editor of Plotinus' works. One of the three major representatives of early Neoplatonism (the third one being Plotinus himself), he exerted considerable influence among later philosophers belonging to the same tradition, such as Proclus, Damascius, and Simplicius.
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    However, the majority of ancient commentaries still extant were written by Neoplatonists as textbooks for their philosophical courses. Typically, these works have a number of features in common: The commentaries consisted in an extremely detailed oral exegesis of a philosophical text, designed for the benefit of students.
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    1. The Scope of Ancient Political Philosophy. We find the etymological origins of both of our terms, "[the] political" and "philosophy", in ancient Greek: the former originally pertaining to the polis or city-state; the latter, as conceived by Plato and the subsequent tradition, being the practice of a particular kind of inquiry conceived as the "love of wisdom" (philosophia).

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