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 yet it is evident that the author of the Revelation was a Kabalist; and the writer of the Gospel of Saint John a Gnostic or a Neoplatonist.
From Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution by Fred Rothwell
This examination is, in two respects, in striking contrast to that of certain other Neoplatonist writers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various
Plotinus, the Neoplatonist, said: “God is not the principal of beings, but the principle of principles.”
From The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology by J. D. (Jirah Dewey) Buck
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
Although the Neoplatonists did not value Aristotle’s empiricism, they did not completely cast his ideas aside.
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
So the Neoplatonists had thought, from whom all this heavenly landscape is borrowed; and the reservations that Christian orthodoxy requires have not always remained present to the minds of Christian mystics and poets.
From Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe by George Santayana
He was a scholar, and full of the fashionable admiration for Plato, though he probably shared the current confusion between Plato's own thoughts and those of the Alexandrian Neoplatonists.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick
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