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
And thus it gradually comes out in all Neoplatonist writings which I have yet examined, that the Divine only exists in a man, in proportion as he is conscious of its existence in him.
From Alexandria and Her Schools; four lectures delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh by Kingsley, Charles
A friend of mine once asked him, "Are you a Christian or a Neoplatonist?"
From Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality by Begbie, Harold
The dialogue hardly derives any light from Plato's other writings, and still less from Scholiasts and Neoplatonist writers.
From Cratylus by Jowett, Benjamin
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