Plotinian

American  

[ploh-tin-ee-uhn] / ploʊˈtɪn i ən /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or in accordance with Plotinus or his philosophy.

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Etymology

Origin of Plotinian

First recorded in 1785–95; Plotin(us) + -ian

Example Sentences

In the middle of the fifth century, when monophysitism was at its zenith, Proclus was fashioning an intellectual machinery to express the Plotinian system.

From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by Luce, A. A. (Arthur Aston)

He was a proof from fact that body and sense and all that is distinctively human could be sublimated into the universal substance, which is the primary effluence of the Plotinian One.

From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by Luce, A. A. (Arthur Aston)

From his time forward we find in Ṣúfí writings constant allusions to the Plotinian theories of emanation and ecstasy.

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold

"Yes, Mac, the new life dawns upon me,—no Plotinian trance, no somnambulic introspection, but a genuine awakening of the soul to a sense of its own beauty."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various

This signifies that its trend of thought is Neo-Platonic, which combines Aristotelian physics with Platonic and Plotinian metaphysics, ethics and psychology.

From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Husik, Isaac