Neoplatonism

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Flavia (2008)

Hence there seems to be little profit in belaboring Ibn Ezra's supposed neoplatonism. ❋ Langermann, Tzvi (2006)

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”. ❋ Langermann, Tzvi (2006)

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. ❋ Langermann, Tzvi (2006)

One of the key notions in neoplatonism is that of emanation. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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. ❋ Michael Arrington (2005)

Leavitt gave us our fill of Farquharson, along with innumerable digressions about volcanoes, neoplatonism, the Single Tax, and what not. ❋ Various (N/A)

These centuries, with their potent influence of neoplatonism on Christianity, appear to have been sterile enough in medicine. ❋ Unknown (1921)

He had made for himself a curious personal religion, a bizarre mixture of theosophy and neoplatonism and Bergsonian philosophy, ❋ Paul Rosenfeld (1918)

With the _Sylph_ at anchor, we lay off Muloa for three nights, and Leavitt gave us our fill of Farquharson, along with innumerable digressions about volcanoes, neoplatonism, the Single Tax, and what not. ❋ Various (1915)

Even the highest systems betray their barbaric origin, but yet they approach, and that very nearly, to the tendency prevalent amongst the cultured classes which was making for neoplatonism. ❋ 1872-1939 (1904)

The ascetic sentiment was stimulated and was spreading on account of the ideas of neoplatonism, the increasing confusion in the Christian body, the excitement and anxiety of a period of social decline, and finally on account of the need to provide other means of expending the passionate love of God which had formerly driven Christians to martyrdom. ❋ William Graham Sumner (1875)

Neoplatonism is a 1000 year effort to reconcile the philosophy of Plato with Aristotle on one scale, and the contrary positions of Aristotle with himself on another, the result, coming from Plotinus in Alexandria, was neoplatonism, which was taken as "the" way to interpret Aristotle. ❋ Unknown (2009)

At the level of metaphsyics, Milbank is very much interested in rehabilitating the hieratic neoplatonism of people like Proclus and Iamblichus which was later Christianized by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and John Scotus Eriugena, and strongly influenced Aquinas and Meister Eckhart, but seems to fallen out of favor circa 1300 AD in order to mount a successful defense of the Good, True, Beautiful, and Peaceable against the complete indeterminacy, relativism, and nihilism that has tended to characterize the postmodern moment. ❋ Unknown (2008)

“neoplatonism” here; he encloses the term in quotation marks, as the present writer tends to do, and for much the same reasons. ❋ Langermann, Tzvi (2006)

According to one theory G.W. Bowersock’s, in particular Julian’s Paganism was highly eccentric and atypical because it was heavily influenced by an esoteric approach to Platonic philosophy sometimes identified as theurgy and also neoplatonism. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Medieval Jewish neoplatonism is an ill-defined term, and all attempts to explicate Ibn Ezra's “neoplatonism” are problematic, forcing scholars to note numerous points of agreement between Ibn Ezra and the Aristotelians ” which, in turn, cannot be divorced from the neoplatonic interpretations informing Islamic Aristotelianism in general. ❋ Langermann, Tzvi (2006)

If, as we have suggested, Ibn Ezra was mainly influenced by Sa˜adiah and other gaonim ” and thus also by the kalam ” many of his ideas about the soul derive from the traditions of Hebrew poetry in Spain, which betray traces of neoplatonism. ❋ Langermann, Tzvi (2006)