Meaning of "Neo-Platonist" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF NEO-PLATONIST

Neo-Platonist  [ˌniːəʊˈpleɪtəˌnɪst]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NEO-PLATONIST

Neo-Platonist is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES NEO-PLATONIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Neoplatonism

Neoplatonism is a modern term used to designate a tradition of philosophy that arose in the 3rd century AD and persisted until shortly after the closing of the Platonic Academy in Athens in AD 529 by Justinian I. Neoplatonists were heavily influenced both by Plato and by the Platonic tradition that thrived during the six centuries which separated the first of the Neoplatonists from Plato. Collectively, the Neoplatonists constituted a continuous tradition of philosophers which began with Plotinus. One of the characteristic features of Plotinus' system, which was also taken up by subsequent Neoplatonists, is the doctrine of "the One" beyond being. For Plotinus, the first principle of reality is an utterly simple, ineffable, unknowable subsistence which is both the creative source and the teleological end of all existing things. Although, properly speaking, there is no name appropriate for the first principle, the most adequate names are "the One" or "the Good". The One is so simple that it cannot even be said to exist or to be a being.

Definition of Neo-Platonist in the English dictionary

The definition of Neo-Platonist in the dictionary is a person who adheres to the philosophy of Neo-Platonism.

TRANSLATION OF NEO-PLATONIST

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• Translator English - Chinese: 新柏拉图主义
• Translator English - Spanish: Neoplatónico
• English: Neo-Platonist
• Translator English - Hindi: नव प्लेटो
• Translator English - Arabic: الأفلاطونية
• Translator English - Russian: Неоплатонической
• Translator English - Portuguese: Neo- platônico
• Translator English - Bengali: নিও-প্লেটার দর্শনতত্ত্ব
• Translator English - French: Néo- platonicien
• Translator English - Malay: Neo-Platonisme
• Translator English - German: Neo- Platoniker
• Translator English - Japanese: ネオプラトン
• Translator English - Korean: 신 플라톤 주의자
• Translator English - Javanese: Neo-Platonisme
• Translator English - Vietnamese: Neo- Platon
• Translator English - Tamil: நியோ-ஆன்மநேயம்
• Translator English - Marathi: नियो-प्लॅटोनिझम
• Translator English - Turkish: Neo-Platonculuk
• Translator English - Italian: Neoplatonico
• Translator English - Polish: Neoplatonik
• Translator English - Ukrainian: Неоплатонической
• Translator English - Romanian: Neo - platonist
• Translator English - Greek: Νεοπλατωνισμού
• Translator English - Afrikaans: Neo- Platonistiese
• Translator English - Swedish: Neo- Platonist
• Translator English - Norwegian: Neo - platoniker

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NEO-PLATONIST»

Discover the use of Neo-Platonist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Neo-Platonist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The Neo-Platonists: A Study in the History of Hellenism

He quotes Neo-Platonist writers, and, by the impress he has received from their type of thinking, furnishes evidence of the knowledge there was of them in the West. In the East some influence on theological metaphysics was exercised by ...

Thomas Whittaker, 1928

The Neo-platonists

been even a nominal Christian. He quotes Neo-Platonist writers, and, by the impress he has received from their type of thinking, furnishes evidence of the knowledge there was of them in the West. In the East some influence on theological ...

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The Prism of Just War: Asian and Western Perspectives on the ...

Consequently, Christian belief came to be interpreted within the context of a neo- Platonist framework, yielding a body of theological doctrine that was heavily influenced by neo-Platonist thought. This neo-Platonist influence continued to ...

Professor Howard M Hensel, 2013

Reading Religions in the Ancient World: Essays Presented to ...

HA, AS. —— 96B–C. HA, AS. —— 102–03. Z. —— 121C. HA, AS, K(S). Heliodoros. iii A.D. Novelist, Neo-Platonist. Aethiopica 10.36. HA. Heraclitus. ii A.D. Allegorist. Homeric Problems 6.6. HA. —— 7.2. HA. —— 7.7. HA. —— 8.1. HA. —— 53.

David Edward Aune, Robin Darling Young, 2007

Mystical Islam: An Introduction to Sufism

This is underlined by the fact that up to the thirteenth century Jews in Muslim countries just imitated Sufi writings.4 Christianity's contribution to the rise of Sufism is further apparent in the obvious influence from the neo-Platonist school of Greek ...

Julian Baldick, 2012

Historical Encyclopedia of Natural and Mathematical Sciences

... inus 80-150 CE a Numenius of Apamea 150-200 CE Neo-Pythagorean Atticus 150-200 Neo-Platonist Plotonius 204-270 Neo-Platonist Ammonius Saccas 206- 268 Neo-Pythagorean Porphyrius 234-305 Neo-Platonist lambilichus 260-330 a  ...

Ari Ben-Menahem, 2009

History of Biblical Interpretation, Volume 3: Renaissance, ...

This is in keeping with the Neo-Platonist viewpoint that traced Platonist teaching back beyond Pythagoras, Orpheus, Hermes (Mercurius) Trismegistus, Homer, and on to Zoroaster. He also published his own writings, including the important ...

Henning Graf Reventlow, 2010

History of Biblical Interpretation, Volume 3: Renaissance, ...

This is in keeping with the Neo-Platonist viewpoint that traced Platonist teaching back beyond Pythagoras, Orpheus, Hermes (Mercurius) Trismegistus, Homer, and on to Zoroaster. He also published his own writings, including the important ...

Henning Graf Reventlow, 2010

World Cultures and World Religions: The Coming Dialogue

It is, therefore, more accurate to say that philosophy meant an eclectic mystical religious philosophy, i.e. Aristotelian- ism and Platonism interpreted in a Neo- platonist spirit. The "Arabs", in this respect, took over what the Christian Syrian ...

Hendrik Kraemer, 2002

The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition

306-337) and also considered a Neo-Platonist. Plotinus: Greek Neo-Platonic philosopher (204-270). Proclus: another Neo-Platonist (412^185); disciple of Syrianus. Hierocles: Platonist who headed a flourishing school in Alexandria in the fifth ...

Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine, 1976