Neoplatonism

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Neoplatonism is a philosophical system developed in the Roman Empire that reinterprets and extends Plato’s ideas into a metaphysical framework centered on a single transcendent source from which all reality emanates.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Platonic tradition ⓘ
late antique philosophy ⓘ
metaphysical system ⓘ
philosophical system ⓘ
developedBy Damascius ⓘ
Iamblichus ⓘ
Proclus ⓘ
developedIn Roman Empire ⓘ
emphasizes contemplation ⓘ
hierarchical structure of reality ⓘ
mystical union with the One ⓘ
foundedBy Plotinus ⓘ
hasCentralConcept Intellect (Nous) ⓘ
linked to: Intellect

World Soul ⓘ
emanation ⓘ
return to the One ⓘ
the One ⓘ
hasHistoricalCenter Alexandria ⓘ
Athens ⓘ
Rome ⓘ
Syrian school of Apamea ⓘ
hasKeyFigure Damascius ⓘ
Iamblichus ⓘ
Plotinus ⓘ
Porphyry ⓘ
Proclus ⓘ
hasKeyText Enneads ⓘ
influenced Augustine of Hippo ⓘ
Byzantine philosophy ⓘ
Christian theology ⓘ
German Idealism ⓘ
linked to: German idealism

Islamic philosophy ⓘ
Jewish philosophy ⓘ
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite ⓘ
Renaissance Platonism ⓘ
medieval scholasticism ⓘ
influencedBy Aristotelianism ⓘ
Middle Platonism ⓘ
Pythagoreanism ⓘ
Stoicism ⓘ
languageOfPrimarySources Ancient Greek ⓘ
opposedView materialism ⓘ
period 3rd century to 6th century CE ⓘ
positsLevelOfReality Intellect (Nous) ⓘ
linked to: Intellect

Soul ⓘ
sensible world ⓘ
the One ⓘ
reinterpretsWorkOf Plato ⓘ
relatedMovement Gnosticism ⓘ
Middle Platonism ⓘ
systematizedBy Porphyry ⓘ
teaches all reality emanates from a single transcendent source ⓘ
evil is privation of good ⓘ
the One is beyond being and intellect ⓘ
linked to: the One

the soul can ascend to the One ⓘ

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Phaedo → influenced → Neoplatonism ⓘ
the Absolute → influencedBy → Neoplatonism ⓘ
St. Augustine → influencedBy → Neoplatonism ⓘ
Heraclitus → influenced → Neoplatonism ⓘ
Western esotericism → influencedBy → Neoplatonism ⓘ
Christian philosophy → influencedBy → Neoplatonism ⓘ
Orphic Mysteries → influenced → Neoplatonism ⓘ
Four Worlds → influencedBy → Neoplatonic emanationism ⓘ
linked to: Neoplatonism
Christian Kabbalah → influencedBy → Neoplatonism ⓘ
Pico della Mirandola → influencedBy → Neoplatonism ⓘ
Marsilio Ficino → movement → Neoplatonism ⓘ
Augustine of Hippo → influencedBy → Neoplatonism ⓘ
Philo of Alexandria → influenced → Neoplatonism ⓘ
Parmenides → influenced → Neoplatonism ⓘ
Islamic philosophy → influencedBy → Neoplatonism ⓘ
Platonism → influenced → Neoplatonism ⓘ
Platonism → hasVariant → Neoplatonism ⓘ
Academy of Athens (ancient) → tradition → Neoplatonism ⓘ
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Statesman → influenced → Neoplatonism ⓘ
Form of the Good → influenced → Neoplatonism ⓘ
subject linked to: the Good (Form of the Good)
Plotinus → philosophicalSchool → Neoplatonism ⓘ
Phaedrus → influenced → Neoplatonism ⓘ
Timaeus → influenced → Neoplatonism ⓘ
the Over-Soul → influencedBy → Neoplatonism ⓘ
Scholastic theology → influencedBy → Neoplatonism ⓘ
Eleatic school → influenced → Neoplatonism ⓘ
Esoteric Christianity → influencedBy → Neoplatonism ⓘ
the One → centralIn → Neoplatonism ⓘ
the One → influenced → Christian Neoplatonism ⓘ
linked to: Neoplatonism
Theosophy → influencedBy → Neoplatonism ⓘ
Pythagoreanism → influenced → Neoplatonism ⓘ
Al-Farabi → influencedBy → Neoplatonism ⓘ
Avicenna → influencedBy → Neoplatonism ⓘ
Al-Kindi → influencedBy → Neoplatonism ⓘ
Augustinian theology → influencedBy → Neoplatonism ⓘ
Boethius → philosophicalTradition → Neoplatonism ⓘ
Middle Platonism → precedes → Neoplatonism ⓘ
Middle Platonism → influenced → Neoplatonism ⓘ
Rosicrucianism → influencedBy → Neoplatonism ⓘ
Sha'arei Tzedek → philosophicalTradition → Jewish Neoplatonism ⓘ
linked to: Neoplatonism
Siris → influencedBy → Neoplatonism ⓘ
Ein Sof as the Christian God → relatedConcept → Neoplatonic Christian theology ⓘ
linked to: Neoplatonism
De verbo mirifico → influencedBy → Neoplatonism ⓘ