Neoplatonism | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-08

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00:02:41 1 Origins of the term
00:05:24 2 Origins and history of classical neoplatonism
00:06:00 2.1 Hellenism
00:07:12 2.2 Saccas
00:08:21 2.3 Plotinus
00:09:58 2.4 Porphyry
00:11:02 2.5 Iamblichus
00:12:21 2.6 Academies
00:15:25 3 Teachings
00:16:18 3.1 The One
00:17:45 3.2 Emanations
00:18:01 3.2.1 Demiurge or Nous
00:19:01 3.2.2 The world-soul
00:20:13 3.2.3 The phenomenal world
00:21:44 3.3 Celestial hierarchy
00:22:43 3.4 Evil
00:23:16 3.5 Return to the One
00:25:09 4 Influence
00:25:18 4.1 Early Christianity
00:25:28 4.1.1 Augustine
00:27:16 4.1.2 Origen and Pseudo-Dionysius
00:28:02 4.1.3 Gnosticism
00:29:39 4.2 Byzantine education
00:32:17 4.3 Islamic neoplatonism
00:34:30 4.4 Jewish thought
00:35:05 4.5 Western mysticism
00:35:24 4.6 Western Renaissance
00:38:44 4.7 Cambridge Platonists (17th century)
00:39:33 4.8 Transcendentalism and Perennial Philosophy
00:39:44 4.9 Modern neoplatonism
00:40:27 5 See also



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Neoplatonism is a term used to designate a strand of Platonic philosophy that emerged in the third century AD against the background of Hellenistic philosophy and religion. The term does not encapsulate a set of ideas as much as it encapsulates a chain of thinkers which began with Ammonious Saccas and his student Plotinus (c. 204/5 – 270 AD) and which stretches to the sixth century AD. Even though Neoplatonism primarily circumscribes the thinkers who are now labeled Neoplatonists and not their ideas, there are some ideas that are common to Neoplatonic systems, for example, the monistic idea that all of reality can be derived from a single principle, "the One". 
After Plotinus there were three distinct periods in the history of Neoplatonism: the work of his student Porphyry; that of Iamblichus and his school in Syria; and the period in the fifth and sixth centuries, when the Academies in Alexandria and Athens flourished.Neoplatonism had an enduring influence on the subsequent history of philosophy. In the Middle Ages, Neoplatonic ideas were studied and discussed by Islamic, Christian, and Jewish thinkers. In the Islamic cultural sphere, Neoplatonic texts were available in Arabic translations, and notable thinkers such as al-Farabi, Solomon ibn Gabirol (Avicebron), Avicenna, and Moses Maimonides incorporated neoplatonic elements into their own thinking. Latin translations of late ancient neoplatonic texts were first available in the Christian West in the ninth century, and became influential from the twelfth century onward. Thomas Aquinas had direct access to works by Proclus, Simplicius and Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, and he knew about other Neoplatonists, such as Plotinus and Porphyry, through secondhand sources. The mystic Meister Eckhart (c. 1260 – c. 1328) was also influenced by Neoplatonism, propagating a contemplative way of life which points to the Godhead beyond the nameable God. 
Neoplatonism also had a strong influence on the Perennial philosophy of the Italian Renaissance thinkers Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola, and continues through nineteenth-century Universalism and modern-day spirituality and nondualism.