neoplatonism

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a school of philosophy based on the teachings of Plato and, subsequently, Plotinus; it was the foundation for paganism
Philosophy that emphasized the most mystical aspects of Plotinus' philosophy Love and recognition of beauty (the good) could lead one toward God or transcendence
Form of Platonism developed by Plotinus in the 3rd century AD 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 late 6th century. It postulated an all-sufficient unity, the One, from which emanated the Divine Mind, or logos, and below that, the World Soul. Those transcendent realities were thought to support the visible world. All things emanated from the One, and individual souls could rise to mystical union with the One through contemplation. Though Plotinus's thought in some respects resembles Gnosticism, he was passionately opposed to that doctrine
A pantheistic eclectic school of philosophy, of which Plotinus was the chief A
Philosophical system developed by Plotinus and others Nominally derived from Plato's metaphysics, neoplatonic philosophy regards the natural world as a series of emanations from the nature of god During most of the medieval period, this system was the most influential version of Plato's thought Recommended Reading: Select Passages Illustrating Neoplatonism, tr by E R Dodd (Ares, 1980) {at Amazon com}; Baine Harris, The Significance of Neoplatonism (SUNY, 1976) {at Amazon com}; R T Wallis, Neoplatonism (Hackett, 1995) {at Amazon com}; and Sara Rappe, Reading Neoplatonism: Non-Discursive Thinking in the Texts of Plotinus, Proclus, and Damascius (Cambridge, 2000) {at Amazon com} Also see OCP, IEP, MHBER, Kamuran Godolek, ColE, CE, ISM, noesis, and MacE
205-270, and which sought to reconcile the Platonic and Aristotelian systems with Oriental theosophy
a system of philosophical and religious 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 predominant in pagan Europe until the 6th century"; "Neoplatonism was a major influence on early Christian writers and on later medieval and Renaissance thought and on Islamic philosophy"
It tended to mysticism and theurgy, and was the last product of Greek philosophy
Neoplatonism is a compilation of Platonic, Aristotelian and Stoic ideas that experienced a strong revival during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance Central to the philosophy is the notion that spiritual things are real and that material things are not The freeing of the spiritual element, the soul, from the material element, the body, should be the ultimate goal of all of mankind and could be achieved through knowledge and contemplation
A further development of Platonic philosophy under the influence of Aristotelian and Pythagorean philosophy and Christian mysticism; it flourished between the third and sixth centuries, stressing a mystical intuition of the highest One or God, a transcendent source of all being
neoplatonism