Julian studied Neoplatonism in Asia Minor in 351, at first under Aedesius, the philosopher, and then Neoplatonic theurgy from Aedesius ' student, Maximus of Ephesus.

* Porphyry ( philosopher ) ( 234-c. 305 ), a Neoplatonic philosopher

The Neoplatonic movement ( though Plotinus would have simply referred to himself as a philosopher of Plato ) seems to be motivated by the desire of Plotinus to revive the pagan philosophical tradition.

* Ammonius Saccas, Neoplatonic philosopher ( approximate date )

* Porphyry, Neoplatonic philosopher ( d. c. 305 )

However, in the late 3rd century Porphyry, an anti-Christian Neoplatonic philosopher, claimed in his treatise Against the Christians that the miracles of Jesus were not unique, and mentioned Apollonius as a non-Christian who had accomplished similar achievements.

* Mir Damad, 17th century Islamic scholar and Neoplatonic philosopher

Born in Constantinople around 420, he went to Alexandria to study in the school of the Neoplatonic philosopher Proclus ; among his fellow students there were Marcellinus ( magister militum and governor of Illyricum ), Flavius Illustrius Pusaeus ( Praetorian prefect of the East and Consul in 467 ), Messius Phoebus Severus ( Consul in 470 and praefectus urbi ), and Pamprepius ( Pagan poet ).

The Neoplatonic philosopher Porphyry, however, took an allegorical view of the Saturnalia.

* 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.

One of the boldest and most radical attempts to reformulate the Neoplatonic concepts into Sufism arose with the philosopher Ibn Arabi, who traveled widely in Spain and North Africa.

325 ) was a Syrian Neoplatonist philosopher who determined the direction taken by later Neoplatonic philosophy.

305 ) was a Neoplatonic philosopher who was born in Tyre.

Solomon ibn Gabirol, also Solomon ben Judah (, Shelomo ben Yehuda ibn Gabirol ;, Abu Ayyūb Suleiman ibn Yahya ibn Jabirūl ;, a corruption of Ibn Gibran ), was an Andalusian Hebrew poet and Jewish philosopher with a Neoplatonic bent.

c. 240 ), a Neoplatonic philosopher ; see Ammonius Saccas

Gaius Marius Victorinus ( also known as Victorinus Afer, fourth century ) was a Roman grammarian, rhetorician and Neoplatonic philosopher.

He was a pupil and sometime amanuensis to the Neoplatonic philosopher Ammonius Hermiae, who had studied at Athens under Proclus.

The Neoplatonic philosophers, including Plotinus, rejected followers of gnosticism as being un-Hellenistic and anti-Plato due to their vilification of Plato's creator of the universe ( the demiurge ), arriving at dystheism as the solution to the problem of evil, taking all their truths over from Plato.

Later Neoplatonic philosophers, especially Iamblichus, added hundreds of intermediate beings as emanations between the One and humanity ; but Plotinus ' system was much simpler in comparison.

Broydé, 1896 — Neoplatonic as Plotinus has stated it:

* Neoplatonic Saints: The Lives of Plotinus and Proclus Translated Texts for Historians 35 ( Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000 ).

The ante-Nicene Christian writer Lactantius routinely uses the Latin theonyms Caelus, Saturn, and Jupiter to refer to the three divine hypostases of the Neoplatonic school of Plotinus: the First God ( Caelus ), Intellect ( Saturn ), and Soul, son of the Intelligible ( Jupiter ).

But they did eventually help inspire Middle Platonic ( including Philo's ) and Neoplatonic metaphysics in which the ideas exist in the mind of God or the Demiurge, or ( according to Plotinus and hence Neoplatonism ) the Divine Mind or Nous.

Eventually, this gifted student became dissatisfied with the level of philosophical instruction available in Alexandria, and went to Athens, the preeminent philosophical center of the day, in 431 to study at the Neoplatonic successor of the famous Academy founded 800 years ( in 387 BC ) before by Plato ; there he was taught by Plutarch of Athens ( not to be confused with Plutarch of Chaeronea ), Syrianus, and Asclepigenia ; he succeeded Syrianus as head of the Academy, and would in turn be succeeded on his death by Marinus of Neapolis.

: These essentially pagan readings of Botticelli's Birth of Venus should not exclude a more purely Christian one, which may be derived from the Neoplatonic reading of the painting indicated above.

He retained his Neoplatonic philosophy after becoming Christian, and in Liber de generatione divini Verbi, he states that God is above being, and thus it can even be said that He is not.

# Every plurality, being a combination of units, presupposes an original unity ; hence, even those that assume a plurality of gods must logically admit the prior existence of a Divine Unity — a Neoplatonic argument borrowed by Baḥya from the Brothers of Purity.

Alan ’ s philosophy was a sort of mixture of Aristotelian logic and Neoplatonic philosophy.

Perhaps the most noteworthy event occurred in 529 when the Neoplatonic Academy of Athens was placed under state control by order of Justinian, effectively strangling this training-school for Hellenism.

This was a significant departure from the Neoplatonic and Augustinian thinking that had dominated much of early scholasticism.

This was an extension of Neoplatonic thought, which influenced early Christian writers.

Art historians who specialize in the Italian Renaissance have found a Neoplatonic interpretation, which was most clearly articulated by Ernst Gombrich, to be the most enduring way to understand the painting.

His predilection for Plato and other pagan ( often Neoplatonic ) philosophers led to doubts about the orthodoxy of his faith among some of his contemporaries, and at one point he was forced to make a public profession of faith in his defense.

At the head of this movement for renewal in Rome was Cardinal Bessarion, whose house from the mid-century was the centre of a flourishing academy of Neoplatonic philosophy and a varied intellectual culture.

1355 – 1452 / 1454 ) — later called Plethon or Pletho () — was a Greek scholar of Neoplatonic philosophy.

In some ways his position was parallel to that of Averroes ; in reaction to the attacks on Avicennian Aristotelism, Maimonides embraced and defended a stricter Aristotelism without Neoplatonic additions.

In short, Agrippa argued for a synthetic vision of magic whereby the natural world combined with the celestial and the divine through Neoplatonic participation, such that ordinarily licit natural magic was in fact validated by a kind of demonic magic sourced ultimately from God.

In the early 6th century, a series of famous writings of a mystical nature, employing Neoplatonic language to elucidate Christian theological and mystical ideas, was ascribed to the Areopagite.

This text was probably composed during the seventh century, and evidence suggests Neoplatonic, Pythagoric, and Stoic influences.

This was the most fundamental point of departure between his own ideas and those of his Neoplatonic predecessors, who believed that matter was a deficient concept

Iamblichus is mentioned in ancient Neoplatonic writings as his pupil, but this most likely means only that he was the dominant figure in the next generation of philosophers.

Admiration for Egypt was widespread in the Hellenistic and Roman civilizations, especially in the Neoplatonic school.