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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

There had been a considerable fusion of Plato and the Stoa among the Neoplatonists, so that it was easy for the two to flourish together.

From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.

Here we have the doctrine of metempsychosis which Plotinus found all around, among the Egyptians, the Jews, the Neoplatonists, his predecessors, and finally in Plato himself.

From Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution by Rothwell, Fred