He was undoubtably the biggest influence on Plotinus in his development of Neoplatonism, although little is known about his own philosophical views.

Little is known about Ammonius's role in the development of Neoplatonism.

Early Christian Dualism is largely based on Platonic Dualism ( See: Neoplatonism and Christianity ).

The Demiurge of Neoplatonism is the Nous ( mind of God ), and is one of the three ordering principles:

Plotinus is noted as the founder of Neoplatonism ( along with his teacher Ammonius Saccas ).

* Neoplatonism is Monistic.

Neoplatonism is polytheistic and panentheistic.

In Neoplatonism the world itself is God 37.

There is a distinct difference between Neoplatonism and Eastern Christianity.

The first principle in Neoplatonism is the One ( Greek: to Hen ).

* Origen, disciple of Ammonius Saccas, founder of Neoplatonism, is exiled in Caesarea.

In late Neoplatonism, the spiritual Universe is regarded as a series of emanations from the One.

It is viewed either as a strength or weakness that this theory requires a second theory about how the Neoplatonism was transmitted to the troubadours ; perhaps it can be coupled with one of the other origins stories or perhaps it is just peripheral.

His work makes no mention of Neoplatonism, even though it is addressed to a woman who was " an enthusiastic Platonist.

As far as is known, his writings may be classified into philosophical ( interpretations of Aristotle, Porphyry, and others, translations of Petrus Hispanus and Thomas Aquinas, and defenses of Aristotelianism against the recrudescence of Neoplatonism ) and theological and ecclesiastical ( partly concerning the union and partly defending Christianity against Muslims, Jews, and pagans ), in addition to numerous homilies, hymns, and letters.

In Neoplatonism, the Intelligence ( Nous ) is the true first principle — the determinate, referential " foundation " ( arkhe )— of all existents ; for it is not a self-sufficient entity like the One, but rather possesses the ability or capacity to contemplate both the One, as its prior, as well as its own thoughts, which Plotinus identifies with the Platonic Ideas or Forms ( eide ).

The Lives of the Sophists, a collection of the biographies of twenty-three older and contemporary philosophers and sophists of the author, is valuable as the only source for the history of the Neoplatonism of that period.

The first is Kalam, that mainly dealt with Islamic theological questions, and the other is Falsafa, that was founded on interpretations of Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism.

) Aristotelianism finds no favor in Judah ha-Levi's eyes, for it is no less given to details and criticism ; Neoplatonism alone suited him somewhat, owing to its appeal to his poetic temperament.

It is often described as having been influenced by Neoplatonism.

Ammonius Saccas ( 3rd century AD ) () was a Greek philosopher from Alexandria who was often referred to as one of the founders of Neoplatonism.

Christian theologians have held idealist views, often based on Neoplatonism, despite the influence of Aristotelian scholasticism from the 12th century onward.

Apart from writing the Aids to the Study of the Intelligibles ( Sententiae Ad Intelligibilia Ducentes ), a basic summary of Neoplatonism, he is especially appreciated for his Introduction to Categories ( Introductio in Praedicamenta ), a very short work often considered to be a commentary on Aristotle's Categories, hence the title.

The physical plane ( actually hyperplane ), physical world, or physical universe, in emanationist metaphysics such as are found in Neoplatonism, Hermeticism, Hinduism and Theosophy, refers to the visible reality of space and time, energy and matter: the physical universe in Occultism and esoteric cosmology is the lowest or densest of a series of planes of existence ( hyperplanes that are said to be nested ).

* c. 370 A. D .-St. Augustine was exposed to Manichaeism and Neoplatonism in his early life, which may have influenced his belief that when St. Peter said " faith cometh by hearing ", the Deaf were incapable of being taught the Christian faith and therefore incapable of achieving redemption.

His works were highly esteemed by the Neoplatonists, and Plotinus ' student Amelius ( who was critical of Gnosticism, see Neoplatonism and Gnosticism ) is said to have composed nearly two books of commentaries upon them.

The One causes all things by conferring unity, in the form of individuality, on them, and in Neoplatonism existence, unity, and form tend to become equivalent.

* Marsilio Ficino ( 1433 – 1499 ) Influential Italian humanist philosopher who revived Neoplatonism and was a leader in the Renaissance ; translated all of Plato's and Plotinus ' works into Latin, as well as many Neoplatonic authors and the Corpus Hermeticum.

In the 3rd century AD, Plotinus added mystical elements, establishing Neoplatonism, in which the summit of existence was the One or the Good, the source of all things ; in virtue and meditation the soul had the power to elevate itself to attain union with the One.

Though Nicoll advocated the theories of the Fourth Way he also maintained interests in essential Christian teachings, in Neoplatonism and in dream interpretation until the end of his life.

He led most of his life at Cambridge, where he wrote a dissertation on Neoplatonism before becoming a fellow.

Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism considered contemplation superior and saw as its goal the knowledge of God or union with him, so that a " contemplative life " was a life devoted to God rather than to any kind of activity.

During the Italian Renaissance, for example, translators such as Ficino and Pico della Mirandola turned their attention to the classical literature of Neoplatonism, and what was thought to be the pre-Mosaic tradition of Hermeticism.

Consequent discussions of Christian Gnosticism included pre-Christian religious beliefs and spiritual practices argued to be common to early Christianity, Hellenistic Judaism, Greco-Roman mystery religions, Zoroastrianism ( especially Zurvanism ), and Neoplatonism.

Proclus can be considered as the spokesman of mature Neoplatonism.

Religious thinking tends to be some form of idealism, as God usually becomes the highest ideal ( such as Neoplatonism ).

More recently, questions have arisen about Neoplatonism as the dominant intellectual system of late 15th-century Florence, and scholars have indicated that there might be other ways to interpret Botticelli's mythological paintings.

In Neoplatonism, especially of the Renaissance, a hieroglyph was an artistic representation of an esoteric idea, which actual Egyptian hieroglyphs seemed to the Neoplatonists to be.

Plato chose Socrates to be the main interlocutor in his dialogues, which in turn formed the basis of Platonism and Neoplatonism.

The foundations of this theory can be traced to Neoplatonism and the philosopher Plotinus in particular.

Neoplatonist philosophers such as Plotinus ( 204 / 5 – 270 AD ) used the term " Logos " in ways that drew on Plato and the Stoics, but the term Logos was interpreted in different ways throughout Neoplatonism, and similarities to Philo's concept of Logos appear to be accidental.

Michaelson ( 2009: p. 130 ) identifies what he perceives to be the origins of nondualism proper founded in the Neoplatonism of Plotinus within Ancient Greece and employs the ambiguous binary construction of " the West " different to ' the East ', refer Edward Said | Saïd's utilization of the discourse of ' Other | The Other ' in Orientalism ( book ) | Orientalism ( 1978 ):

Among the very diverse movements of Hellenistic philosophy in which theological reflection could be found were Skepticism, Cynicism, Stoicism, Epicureanism, Middle Platonism, and Neoplatonism.

Further, the claim that these works, on their true interpretation, are harmless metaphorical imagery fully compatible with monotheism is disingenuous: the origins of most Kabbalistic concepts in pagan systems such as Neoplatonism and Gnosticism are too glaringly obvious to be ignored.

His theory of emanation was held by many to be irreconcilable with the Jewish doctrine of creation ; and the tide of Aristotelianism turned back the slight current of Gabirol's Neoplatonism.

In addition to an allegory of an ideal marriage, the poem can be seen as an elucidation of the relationship between truth and beauty, or of fulfilled love, in the context of Renaissance Neoplatonism.

Examples of esoteric cosmologies can be found in Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, Nagualism, Nagualism ( Carlos Castaneda ), Tantra ( especially Kashmir Shaivism ), Kabbalah, Sufism, the teachings of Jacob Boehme, The Urantia Book, the Sant Mat / Surat Shabda Yoga tradition, Theosophy, Anthroposophy, The Cosmic Tradition of Max Theon and his wife, Max Heindel ( The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception ), elements of the teachings of Sri Aurobindo, Meher Baba, the Fourth Way propounded by Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, PaGaian Cosmology and many current New Age teachings, to give only a few examples.