| 单词 | Neoplatonist |
| 例句 | Instead, they turned to the ancients like Aristotle and the Neoplatonists. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z One of the most important of the Italian Neoplatonists was Marsilio Ficino, who translated all of Plato’s works from ancient Greek to Latin and synthesized Platonic thought with the teachings of Christianity. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z He studied under the celebrated Neoplatonist Plutarch at Athens, and taught for some years in his native city. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z But this method of assimilation, which culminated in the Gnostics, the Neoplatonists, and especially in Origen, was directed not to the later Stoics of the Empire, but to the great philosophers who had preceded Christianity. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z DAMASCIUS, the last of the Neoplatonists, was born in Damascus about A.D. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z He invented a religious system founded on the speculative mysticism of the Neoplatonists, and founded a sect, the members of which believed that the new creed would supersede all existing forms of belief. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z Although the Neoplatonists did not value Aristotle’s empiricism, they did not completely cast his ideas aside. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Just before the holidays, too, came from the press my doctoral essay about the Neoplatonists. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z The same moral impulse which transformed the Neoplatonist into a dreaming mystic and the Catholic into a useless hermit, impelled the Stoic to the foremost post of danger in the service of his country. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z This examination is, in two respects, in striking contrast to that of certain other Neoplatonist writers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z So the Neoplatonists had thought, from whom all this heavenly landscape is borrowed; and the reservations that Christian orthodoxy requires have not always remained present to the minds of Christian mystics and poets. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Stobaeus in the Sermones collected a number of ethical dicta of one Eusebius, who may perhaps be identical with the Neoplatonist. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z At the same time the differences are the more noteworthy from the reverent adhesion which the Neoplatonists always maintain to Plato. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z The Stoics identified man with God, for the purpose of glorifying man—the Neoplatonists for the purpose of aggrandising God. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z He was a student of Plato, Aristotle, and of the Neoplatonists; he had translated treatises on mathematics from the Greek, and had written on philosophy and theology. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z Few of the poets can have distinguished the original fountain of Plato from the canalized supply of the Italian Neoplatonists. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z He was a thorough Aristotelian, but by preference appears to have been drawn towards the mystical writings of the Neoplatonists and the pseudo-Dionysius. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z The legend which was interpreted by Stoic and Neoplatonist as full of physical or metaphysical meanings,2836 had also elements of human interest which appealed to the masses, always eager for emotional excitement. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The Neoplatonists, however, were occupied with analysis of the Beautiful, on which both Proclus and Plotinus expatiated; still more purely literary were some of the treatises of Porphyry. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" He was a scholar, and full of the fashionable admiration for Plato, though he probably shared the current confusion between Plato's own thoughts and those of the Alexandrian Neoplatonists. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z He was in the main a Neoplatonist, drawing from that school his doctrines of the Monad and his strong tendency towards mysticism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" The philosophy of Plato and Aristotle is very different from that of the Stoics and Neoplatonists. Progress and History It includes among its writers the last of the Neoplatonists, particularly Philo, the originator of the allegorical interpretation of the Bible and of a Jewish philosophy of religion; Aristeas, and pseudo-Phokylides. Jewish Literature and Other Essays Plotinus, the Neoplatonist, said: “God is not the principal of beings, but the principle of principles.” The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology The Stoics, Cynics, Neopythagoreans, and Neoplatonists all had ascetic elements in their doctrines. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals There had been a considerable fusion of Plato and the Stoa among the Neoplatonists, so that it was easy for the two to flourish together. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Here we have the doctrine of metempsychosis which Plotinus found all around, among the Egyptians, the Jews, the Neoplatonists, his predecessors, and finally in Plato himself. Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution The Neoplatonists believed that man could intuitively know the absolute by a faculty called Ecstasy. Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine Here he adhered to no fixed philosophical system, but, like Philo, Clement, and the Neoplatonists, adopted and adapted all that had been effected by the labours of idealistic Greek moralists since the time of Socrates. History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) But this confidence vanishes in the later Neoplatonists. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) But pre-existence does not seem to have been believed by the majority of Greeks, and in fact almost disappears from Greek thought between Plato and the Neoplatonists. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield He travelled much, studied in many cities, and was the friend of the mystic Neoplatonists, Plotinus and Ammonius. On the Sublime Finally, do the Neoplatonists, Neopythagoreans and other pagan philosophers of the early centuries after Christ owe any debt to India? Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 The Neoplatonists were no wiser, and Greek legend tells a well-known story of a married mystic whose suspended animation began at last to bore his wife. Lost Leaders And yet no one can deny that, in the fourth century, even the noblest and choicest minds were found among the Neoplatonists. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) The doctrine of the Logos brought Christianity into direct affinity with both Platonism and Stoicism, and the Second Person of the Trinity was invested with the same attributes as the Nous of the Neoplatonists. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield But Ammonius is not a very uncommon name, and we have no reason to suppose that the Neoplatonist Ammonius busied himself with the literary criticism of Homer and Plato. On the Sublime For Platonists and Neoplatonists, such as the makers of the creeds—and some portions of the Scripture show this influence, as well—the divine, the ideal, was always thought of as eternal. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant Among the Neoplatonists of Alexandria and the Sufis of Arabia and Persia many seem to have listened to the voice of Hindu mysticism but rather as individuals than as leaders of popular movements. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 If in any writing the doctrines just named are not referred to, it is often doubtful whether it was composed by a Christian or a Neoplatonist. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) A friend of mine once asked him, "Are you a Christian or a Neoplatonist?" Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality The word was taken over, with other technical terms of the mysteries, by the Neoplatonists, who found in the existing mysteriosophy a discipline, worship, and rule of life congenial to their speculative views. Christian Mysticism Blavatsky, in the Key to Theosophy, begins, you will remember, with an appeal to and restatement of the Theosophy of the Gnostics and Neoplatonists of Alexandria. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 In fact she was what Porphyry, the Neoplatonist, would have called a ‘deceitful demon’. Cock Lane and Common-Sense Like the Neoplatonists, these Basilidians did not teach an emanation from the Godhead, but a dynamic mode of action of the Supreme Being. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) But, as a matter of fact, Pantheism as a religion is, with certain exceptions among Indian saints and later Neoplatonists, almost entirely a modern development, of which Spinoza was the first distinct and devout teacher. Pantheism, Its Story and Significance Religions Ancient and Modern He shows that with the Stoics, who were Pantheists, the Logos was regarded as a first cause; while with the Neoplatonists, who were Theists and Transcendentalists, it was a secondary cause. Christian Mysticism Yet there was a power in them which fascinated the Neoplatonists for centuries afterwards. Parmenides The experiment of Hilarius with the ‘confounded little table’ led to a massacre of Neoplatonists, martyrs of Psychical Research! Cock Lane and Common-Sense He, Simplicius, the masterly commentator on Aristotle, and five other Neoplatonists, migrated to Persia after Justinian had issued the edict closing the school. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) The dialogue hardly derives any light from Plato's other writings, and still less from Scholiasts and Neoplatonist writers. Cratylus His importance lies in his position as the first Christian Neoplatonist who wrote in Latin. Christian Mysticism So much of a syncretist is Plato, though not after the manner of the Neoplatonists. Timaeus Of course we may be told that all lookers-on, from Eskimo to Neoplatonists and men of science, know what to expect, and are hallucinated by their own expectant attention. Cock Lane and Common-Sense The construction, as remarked above, is rather that of the later Greek philosophy, though it cannot be mistaken that, for us, the full parallel to the Gnostic systems first appears in those of the Neoplatonists. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) They put the dreams of the Neoplatonists, Iamblicus, Porphyry, or Plotinus, or Proclus, on the same level as the sound dialectic philosophy of Plato himself. Historical Lectures and Essays The Neoplatonists always thought of emanation as a diffusion of rays from a sun, which necessarily decrease in heat and brightness as they recede from the central focus. Christian Mysticism And the Neoplatonists would have, on the whole, allowed that argument. Alexandria and Her Schools; four lectures delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh Marvels of savages, Neoplatonists, saints of Church or Covenant, ‘spontaneous’ phenomena, Mediumistic phenomena, all hang together in some ways. Cock Lane and Common-Sense That is shewn not only in the philosophic methods of the Neoplatonists, but also, though in a subordinate way, in their metaphysics. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Therefore the old Oriental religions are of special value to the Neoplatonists. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) But these statements do not make it clear how Eckhart accounts for the imperfections of the phenomenal world, which he is precluded from explaining, as the Neoplatonists did, by a theory of emanation. Christian Mysticism And thus it gradually comes out in all Neoplatonist writings which I have yet examined, that the Divine only exists in a man, in proportion as he is conscious of its existence in him. Alexandria and Her Schools; four lectures delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh Yet, in comparison with the later Neoplatonists, he was free from gross superstition and wild fanaticism. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) But in his mode of thought he was certainly a Neoplatonist. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) The Christian Neoplatonists naturally regard the sacrament as symbolic. Christian Mysticism But these Italian Neoplatonists had, for the most part, no deep religious feelings, and they did not exhibit in their lives that severity which the Alexandrian philosophers had practised. Christian Mysticism They did, for centuries, work a distinct and palpable deliverance on the earth; while all the solemn and earnest meditation of the Neoplatonists, however good or true, worked no deliverance whatsoever. Alexandria and Her Schools; four lectures delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh The Neoplatonists said that there is a divine element in man. Alexandria and Her Schools; four lectures delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh The Neoplatonists themselves described the ecclesiastical theologians as intruders who appropriated Greek philosophy, but mixed it with foreign fables. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) These brutes in human form, these souls wallowing in earthly mire, could hardly, in the Neoplatonists' eyes, be objects of the Divine desire. Alexandria and Her Schools; four lectures delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh The Neoplatonists were led on by the hope of finding a reconciliation between philosophy and positive religion; but no such problems ever presented themselves to the Spaniards. Christian Mysticism |
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