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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A philosophical system developed at Alexandria in the third century A.D. by Plotinus and his successors. It is based on Platonism with elements of mysticism and some Judaic and Christian concepts and posits a single source from which all existence emanates and with which an individual soul can be mystically united.
- n. A revival of Neo-Platonism or a system derived from it, as in the Middle Ages.
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I am also a big fan of philosophies and philosophers which range from ancients such as Plato who founded Neo-Platonism as well as the teachings of Esoteric Buddhism of medieval Japan.
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Although taking a similar approach as that of Moore, Pound's aesthetic exchanges frequently drew from Christian mysticism, Neo-Platonism, and Confucianism, as opposed to the nineteenth century American and European tradition often referenced in The Dial.
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Finally, since the interconnected nature of things in Process and Reality is not a thorough All-in-All, process metaphysics never results in anything as monolithic as the One of Neo-Platonism.
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So far, I have argued as follows: If the absolute is considered impersonal, than to call it “God” is disingenuous to both the original tenor of Abrahamic theism before its absorption of ideologies like Gnosticism and Neo-Platonism as well as the traditions which have always espoused a radically immanent notion of the divine.
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Gnosticism, Neo-Platonism and Theosophy Hardy, 1993: 115 and states that they all adhere to levels of consciousness.
Kenneth Sørensen - Integral Psychosynthesis, a comparison of Wilber and Assagioli
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This includes Neo-Platonism, so he discusses Plotinus, generally considered the first Neo-Platonist (and no, not because it's kind of a pun on his name).
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These kabbalists, while protesting such rationalism, were themselves very influenced by two dominant trends: Gnosticism and Neo-Platonism.
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On Neoplatonism, speaking of Cosimo di Medici the Elder and Marcelino Ficino (poor Pico doesn't get mentioned), he says: «They introduced Neo-Platonism in an attempt to reinstate ideas and ideals: that is universals» (17).
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These full-frontal self-portraits have to do not only with ego, but also with the philosophy of Neo-Platonism.
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Briefly, Neo-Platonism suggests that art was the closest approximation to the perfection that must exist in Heaven, and that artists were therefore the conduit of a reflection, a shadow of the divine on earth.
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