Neo-Platonic

• a word derived from Neo-Platonism.
  Neo-Platonism

  noun

  a philosophical system which was first developed in the 3rd century _ad as a synthesis of Platonic, Pythagorean, and Aristotelian elements, and which, although originally opposed to Christianity, later incorporated it. It dominated European thought until the 13th century and re-emerged during the Renaissance

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Neo-Platonic

At 14 he entered Harvard; at 18 he was graduated; at 30 he had lost his first wife, his faith in his clerical calling, everything but his faith in himself and Nature's Neo-Platonic Over-Soul.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, under Mohammedan influence, the Aristotelian and Neo-Platonic philosophies in vogue gave rise to certain ethical works more or less in accord with their philosophic or mystic prototypes.

From Jewish Theology by Kaufmann Kohler

These were some of the religious ideas current among the best men, Dion Chrysostom, Plutarch, Maximus of Tyre, which the Neo-Platonic school strove to harmonise with the rites and legends of the past.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill

This latter condition saves the Neo-Platonic conception from being a pure system of emanation like some Indian doctrines.

From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik

On the other hand, in the Neo-Platonic system of Plotinus all existence and particularly that of the intelligible or spiritual world issues or emanates from the One or the Good.

From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik

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