Neoplatonism (The last school of Greek philosophy

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• Neoplatonism — Ne o*pla to*nism, n. [Neo + Platonism.] A pantheistic eclectic school of philosophy, of which Plotinus was the chief (a. d. 205 270), and which sought to reconcile the Platonic and Aristotelian systems with Oriental theosophy. It tended to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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• NEOPLATONISM — NEOPLATONISM, the system elaborated by Plotinus and his pupil Porphyry on the basis of antecedent Middle Platonic and neo Pythagorean developments. The system was modified by their successors, the main post Plotinian currents and schools of late… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

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