neoplatonism
IPA: nioʊpɫˈeɪtʌnɪzʌm
Root Word: Neoplatonism
noun
- A school of philosophy based on the teachings of Plato and, subsequently, Plotinus; it was the foundation for paganism.
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Examples of "neoplatonism" in Sentences
- One of the key notions in neoplatonism is that of emanation.
- Hence there seems to be little profit in belaboring Ibn Ezra's supposed neoplatonism.
- These centuries, with their potent influence of neoplatonism on Christianity, appear to have been sterile enough in medicine.
- He had made for himself a curious personal religion, a bizarre mixture of theosophy and neoplatonism and Bergsonian philosophy,
- Leavitt gave us our fill of Farquharson, along with innumerable digressions about volcanoes, neoplatonism, the Single Tax, and what not.
- Julius Guttmann, who may well be responsible for defining medieval Jewish neoplatonism as a historical category, declared Ibn Ezra to be “the last in the line of Jewish Neoplatonists”.
- Unfortunately the church fathers, with the exceptions of Origen and Augustine, rejected this view as an overreaction to the heresies of gnosticism and neoplatonism that threatened to subvert the Gospel.
- I once sat through an entire panel on neoplatonism just to hear a paper, placed at the end, that was an extended comparison between Proust's remembrance of things past and books 8-10 of the confessions. it was delicious.
- It takes its place in the scholastic canon of learned and literate religiosity, heavily imbued with the philosophical ideas of neoplatonism, Augustine, and Aristotle, wrapped up in the scholastic Latin of the schools and universities.
- The soul's longing for release from this world and liberation, or obliteration, in the divine, are themes which found powerful expression in their liturgies, and which bond them to at least one important facet of neoplatonism and to each other more truly than any specific doctrines that they may hold concerning the origin of matter or the nature of prophetic inspiration.
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