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Neoplatonism

c. 250 – c. 650 CE

Late ancient revival of Plato's philosophy, begun by Plotinus, which described all reality as flowing from a single first principle, the One.

“Neoplatonism” is a modern name for the Platonist philosophy of late antiquity, from Plotinus in the third century to the seventh. Its philosophers, among them Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus and Proclus, saw themselves simply as Platonists, and developed Plato’s thought into a comprehensive system in which everything derives from the One. Neoplatonism deeply influenced Christian, Jewish and Islamic philosophy.

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Sources

  1. Christian Wildberg, Neoplatonism, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy