Neoplatonist
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Antiquity boasted two Neoplatonist philosophers by the name Ammonius.
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2012
The claim that Copernicus was influenced by neo-Platonism has been contested: Rosen, ‘Was Copernicus a Neoplatonist?’
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
A friend of mine once asked him, "Are you a Christian or a Neoplatonist?"
From Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality by Harold Begbie
He studied under the celebrated Neoplatonist Plutarch at Athens, and taught for some years in his native city.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
At that epoch there was a throng of men like Ernest Havet presenting Hellenism in opposition to Christianity, and Ernest Havet is only a Neoplatonist of the nineteenth century.
From Initiation into Philosophy by Émile Faguet
Although the Neoplatonists did not value Aristotle’s empiricism, they did not completely cast his ideas aside.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
One of the most important of the Italian Neoplatonists was Marsilio Ficino, who translated all of Plato’s works from ancient Greek to Latin and synthesized Platonic thought with the teachings of Christianity.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Instead, they turned to the ancients like Aristotle and the Neoplatonists.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
He was a thorough Aristotelian, but by preference appears to have been drawn towards the mystical writings of the Neoplatonists and the pseudo-Dionysius.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
Need for Graded Religion; 14 Neoplatonists; 29, 112 Newman, Cardinal, quoted; 103 et seq.
From Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries by Annie Wood Besant
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