School
Neoplatonism
c. 250 – c. 650 CE
Late ancient revival of Plato's philosophy, begun by Plotinus, which described all reality as flowing from a single first principle, the One.
“Neoplatonism” is a modern name for the Platonist philosophy of late antiquity, from Plotinus in the third century to the seventh. Its philosophers, among them Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus and Proclus, saw themselves simply as Platonists, and developed Plato’s thought into a comprehensive system in which everything derives from the One. Neoplatonism deeply influenced Christian, Jewish and Islamic philosophy.
- Tradition
- Western
Philosophers
- Plotinusc. 204 – 270 CE
- Proclus412–485 CE
- John Scottus Eriugenac. 800 – c. 877 CE
- Isaac Israelic. 855 – c. 955 CE
- Abu Yaqub al-Sijistanifl. 934–971 CE
- Nasir Khusraw1004–1060
- Abner of Burgosc. 1260 – 1347
Sources
- Christian Wildberg, Neoplatonism, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy