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Neoplatonism
[ nee-oh-pleyt-n-iz-uhm ]
noun
- Sometimes neoplatonism. a philosophical system, originated in the 3rd century a.d. by Plotinus, founded chiefly on Platonic doctrine and Eastern mysticism, with later influences from Christianity. It holds that all existence consists of emanations from the One with whom the soul may be reunited.
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ±·±ð·´Ç·±è±ô²¹Â·³Ù´Ç²Ô·¾±³¦ [nee-oh-pl, uh, -, ton, -ik], adjective
- ±·±ðo·±è±ô²¹î€ƒt´Ç·²Ô¾±²õ³Ù noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of Neoplatonism1
Example Sentences
He rants about Descartes, human destiny, time’s linearity, Neoplatonism, economic theory, the concertos of Alban Berg.
In this he’s in league with untold numbers of 20th- and 21st-century artists who have found creative inspiration in programs like Neoplatonism, Theosophy, the kabbalah, Rosicrucianism and astrology.
The Alawite faith, developed a millennium ago, is a strange, mystic blend of Neoplatonism, Christianity, Islam and Zoroastrianism.
The influence of Neoplatonism, the baptism of multitudes of nominal Christians after Constantine, and the decline of zeal which necessarily accompanied prosperity, had all in different ways the same tendency.
Neoplatonism, and the philosophies that were allied to it, were fundamentally pantheistic,618 but they differed widely from the pantheism of the Stoics.
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