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  • Aristobulus of Paneas (c. 160 B.C.E.) was among the earliest Hellenistic Jewish philosophers who attempted to reconcile the Hebrew Scriptures ...
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  • Neoplatonism (also Neo-Platonism) is the modern term for a school of philosophy took shape in the third century C.E. with the philosopher Plotinus ...
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  • ===Neo-Platonism: Plotinus === The Neo-Platonist Plotinus fused the ... With the rise of Platonism and Hermeticism during the Renaissance ...
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  • He is considered one of the founders of Neo-Platonism. He was given the name Porphyrius (clad in purple, an allusion to the color of imperial robes ...
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  • Christian government associated Neo-Platonism with polytheism. Damascius’ chief treatise, entitled Difficulties and Solutions of First Principles ...
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  • *Platonism *Neoplatonism *Gnosticism *Mandaeanism *Manicheanism *Catharism *Kabbalah *Surat Shabda Yoga *Sufism *Druze *Rosicrucianism ...
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  • John Norris (1657 – 1711), Anglican priest, philosopher and poet, is remembered as a Cambridge Platonist and as the sole English proponent ...
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  • 039;s school. He attempted a synthesis of Platonism with Christian theology ... Ficino tried to synthesize Christianity and Platonism. ...
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  • Scholasticism, from the Latin word scholasticus ("that [which] belongs to the school) was a method of learning taught by the academics ...
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  • culture and integrating elements of Platonism, Stoicism, Islamic fatalism ... did not always make a distinction between Platonism and Neoplatonism. ...
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  • synthesis of elements drawn from Neo-Platonism, Aristotelianism, and Pythagoreanism ... synthesis of elements drawn from Neo-Platonism, Aristotelianism, and Pythagoreanism ...
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  • of materiality (an attitude common to Platonism), holding to the view that ... * Berchman, Robert M. From Philo to Origen: Middle Platonism in Transition ...
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  • selected doctrines of Greek philosophy. Neo-Platonism, the last product of Greek speculation, sought to establish correct relationships between God and ...
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  • strong elements of mysticism and Platonism within the framework of ... who is considered the father of Neo-Platonism. In The Confessions, St ...
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  • who attempted to align Christianity with Platonism, drawing dualist conceptions ... teaching that is unflatteringly tied to Platonism: Now with the heresy ...
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  • who had been heavily dependent on Platonism and Neo-Platonism, made a new acquaintance with Aristotle in the twelfth century, through Latin ...
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  • position called “idealist” and associated with Platonism)? Or are there certain undeniable axioms that form the base for all other faculties and experiences ...
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  • paid deference to the mixture of Stoicism and Platonism which characterized the religious and ethical thought of the educated classes in his day. ...
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  • home to Alexandria, where he taught Platonism in the school of Horapollo ... a pupil of Ammonius who was inclined to Platonism, took it back to Athens ...
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  • In the neo-Platonism of Plotinus, the first step in the return of ... newadvent.org/cathen/10742b.htm Neo-Platonism.] Category:philosophy ...
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  • In metaphysics, a universal is a type, a property, or a relation. The term derives from the Latin word universalia and is often considered to ...
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  • An academy (Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of higher learning, research, or honorary membership. The name traces back to Plato's ...
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  • The Transcendentalists drew their inspiration from many sources: Platonism and Neoplatonism; Indian and Chinese scriptures; the writings of mystics ...
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  • Origen (Greek: Ὠριγένης , c.185 – c.254 C.E.) was one of the most distinguished theologians and scholars of the early Christian Church ...
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  • accurately. Nifo also studied Plato and Platonism, particularly as it was developed by Marsilio Ficino and the members of his Academy in Florence ...
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  • Mestrius Plutarchus (c. 46 - 127), known in English as Plutarch, (in Greek Πλούταρχος) was a Greek philosopher, biographer, and essayist ...
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  • with Plato. This view, named Christian Platonism, interprets Plato as prophet ... Yet there developed a different type of Platonism—Pagan Platonism ...
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  • as expressed in his own “Empiricism and Platonism in the Philosophy of Religion – To the Memory of William James,” presented in 1904 during ...
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  • influenced by Renaissance Neo-Platonism. From the fifteentth century religious painting gradually freed itself from the habit of following earlier ...
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  • Medieval thinkers, who integrated Platonism and Aristotelianism into a Christian framework, articulated the spirituality of human existence and ...
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  • time with the idealistic principles of Platonism. Based at the Cambridge ... state, an answer from the standpoint of Platonism. Just as knowledge contains ...
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  • what later became known as Christian Platonism. ===Origen=== ... developed the tradition of Christian Platonism. Origen taught a doctrine ...
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  • Saint Maximus the Confessor (also known as Maximus the Theologian and Maximus of Constantinople) (c. 580 - August 13, 662 C.E.) was a Christian ...
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  • notion of the eternity of the world. His Platonism was Plato as understood by St Augustine, which had been handed down by the Alexandrian school ...
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  • an older philosophical tradition, found in Neo-Platonism, some Far Eastern religious philosophies, and some Christian thinkers, that divided human nature ...
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  • adopted a religious orientation and Neo-Platonism florished. ... * Neo-Platonism: Ammonius Saccas, Porphyry, Plotinus (Roman), Iamblichus ...
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  • (1433 – 1499), the main representative of Platonism and Neoplatonism during the Renaissance period, claimed that both the Averroists and the Alexandrists ...
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  • The 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper III) (1671 – 1713) was an English philosopher and a grandson of the First Earl of Shaftesbury ...
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  • One form of mathematical realism is the view called Platonism. This ... *Tait, W.W. "Truth and Proof: The Platonism of Mathematics" ...
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  • Philo (20 B.C.E. – 50 C.E.), known also as Philo of Alexandria and as Philo Judaeus, was a Hellenized Jewish philosopher who synthesized Stoic ...
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  • William of Auvergne (c. 1190 – 1248), Bishop of Paris from 1228 until his death in 1249, was the first of the thirteenth century theologians ...
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  • *Doering, E. Jane, ed. (2004) The Christian Platonism Of Simone Weil. University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 0268025657 *Finch, Henry Leroy. (1999 ...
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  • to the classical literature of neo-Platonism, and what was thought to be the pre-Mosaic tradition of Hermeticism. [[Image:Hpb.jpg|thumb|right ...
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  • Alexander Blok Александр Александрович Блок, (November 16, 1880 - August 7, 1921), was probably the most gifted lyrical ...
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  • of the Church Fathers. This implicit Neo-platonism is the true heritage of Russian thinking. == Selected bibliography == *The Fundamental Doctrines ...
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  • canon. Hilary, thus, abandoned his Neo-Platonism for Christianity. Together with his wife and daughter (traditionally named Saint Abra), he received ...
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  • is critiqued for being tainted with Platonism and/or Neoplatonism. Nevertheless ... ==Fusion of Platonism and Christianity== Augustine was the outstanding ...
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  • Xenocrates ( Ξενοκράτης ) of Chalcedon (396 – 314 B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher and third scholarch or rector of the Academy from ...
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  • Adelard of Bath (Latin: Adelardus Bathensis) (1116? - 1142?) was a twelfth century English scholar, best known for translating many important ...
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  • Wisdom may include those of classical and Middle-Platonism. Some religious and ethical influences may stem from Stoicism, also found in the writings ...
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