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a system of philosophical and theological doctrines composed of elements of Platonism and Aristotelianism and oriental mysticism; its most distinctive doctrine holds that the first principle and source of reality transcends being and thought and is naturally unknowable
Neoplatonism was a major influence on early Christian writers and on later medieval and Renaissance thought and on Islamic philosophy
Neoplatonism was predominant in pagan Europe until the 6th century
How To Use Neoplatonism In A Sentence
- Neoplatonism The First Shit is the best shit.
- But whilst Neoplatonism was more philosophical, mystical, and theurgic, Gnosticism was more specificically mythopoetic, individually creative, and religious. Max Theon, Gnosticism, and Mirra Alfassa
- In a word, the philosophy which Neoplatonism represents, whose final interest is the religious, and whose highest object is the super-rational, must be a _philosophy of revelation_. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)
- Late antique Neoplatonism was essentially monotheism; Wicca is essentially duotheism.
- In his illuminationist writings, Suhrawardī relies on Neoplatonism but replaces such concepts as being and existence with light and illumination, thus offering what can be called a gnostic-illuminationist version of Avicennian philosophy (Aminrazavi 2003). Mysticism in Arabic and Islamic Philosophy
- According to one theory G.W. Bowersock’s, in particular Julian’s Paganism was highly eccentric and atypical because it was heavily influenced by an esoteric approach to Platonic philosophy sometimes identified as theurgy and also neoplatonism. Julian 1st…Caesar of Rome! Past life experience… « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture
- The idea of privation - of the diminishing of the plenitude of the Absolute was an important theme in Plotinus's Neoplatonism.
- Neoplatonism was a major influence on early Christian writers and on later medieval and Renaissance thought and on Islamic philosophy
- Neoplatonism was predominant in pagan Europe until the 6th century