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Definition of Neoplatonist

Neoplatonist
Neoplatonist Ne`o*pla"to*nist, n. One who held to Neoplatonism; a member of the Neoplatonic school.

Meaning of Neoplatonist from wikipedia

- accepted that the doctrines of the neoplatonists were essentially the same as those of Plato. The Renaissance neoplatonist Marsilio Ficino, for instance,...
- Taylor (15 May 1758 – 1 November 1835) was an English translator and Neoplatonist, the first to translate into English the complete works of Aristotle...
- romanized: Iámblichos; Aramaic: 𐡉𐡌𐡋𐡊𐡅, romanized: Yamlīkū; c. 245 – c. 325) was a Neoplatonist philosopher who determined a direction later taken by Neoplatonism. Iamblichus...
- Oracles are a set of spiritual and philosophical texts widely used by Neoplatonist philosophers from the 3rd to the 6th century CE. While the original texts...
- given in reference to Hypatia of Alexandria (c. 350 to 370–415), the Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician. It is a feminine form of...
- early followers. While Gnosticism was influenced by Middle Platonism, neoplatonists from the third century onward rejected Gnosticism. Nevertheless, Alexander...
- tradition. He translated and interpreted many works of Aristotle and Neoplatonists in his attempt to show that there is a harmony between reason and faith...
- rituals, they devoured human infants and engaged in incestuous orgies. The Neoplatonist philosopher Porphyry wrote the fifteen-volume Adversus Christianos as...
- Platonism, especially in its Neoplatonist form, underwent a revival in the Renaissance as part of a general revival of interest in classical antiquity...
- Hebdomads, a work of the Hippocratic Corpus Hebdomad, a term used by Neoplatonist philosophers such as Iamblichus and Proclus in reference to the intellect...