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Neoplatonic

Neoplatonic

1 9.9
About Plato's ideas that say all things come from one spiritual source
  • adjective
  • /ˌniːoʊˈpleɪtɒnɪk/
  • Specialized
: neoplatónico
  • Many Renaissance artists were influenced by Neoplatonic ideas about beauty and love.
  • Neoplatonic love
  • Neoplatonic theory
  • Neoplatonic concept

This is obviously in the Platonic and the whole Neoplatonic tradition, this idea of participation that.

Examples

  • Underlying this difference are two disparate philosophical impulses that have their roots in the Neoplatonic effort to account for beauty by combining elements of Platonic mysticism and Aristotelian and Stoic empiricism.

    Academic text (2007)

  • The Byzantine sacred portrait can be seen to function in Neoplatonic terms.

    Academic text (2006)

  • So it's tied in with Neoplatonic thought as well.

  • So the union at the end is not just a Neoplatonic union of Renaissance ideas is union through love.

  • Botticelli clearly showed the influence... of the Neoplatonic cult.

    Embrace of the Vampire (1995)

  • Moreover, it is argued in Neoplatonic terms that are a common language for Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.

    Academic text (1999)

  • Yet the inclusion of this scene in the School of Athens also points to a rather daring aspect of Neoplatonic thinking:

    Academic text (1995)

  • One should also remember that Apollo and Apollo Helios were favorite Neoplatonic symbols of Christ.

    Academic text (1995)

  • Because of the Neoplatonic concept behind the syntagm, the transformed signs now have a different referent.

    Academic text (1995)

  • As much as Origen may have been sympathetic to and influenced by Neoplatonic and Stoic cosmologies, his theology is rooted in Scripture.

    Academic text (1993)

Synonyms

Platonic
vsNeoplatonic
  • Formal
6 8.7

Relates to Plato's idea that perfect forms are more real than the visible world

adds later spiritual reinterpretations to those classical ideas
Platonistic
vsNeoplatonic
  • Formal
1 9.7

About Plato's belief that perfect, unchanging forms exist beyond things we can touch

emphasizes later spiritual reinterpretations rather than only broad doctrines
Plotinian
vsNeoplatonic
  • Formal
9.9

Relating to the ideas of Plotinus

includes later spiritual reinterpretations built on those teachings

Surface Forms

Neoplatonic positive

Morphology

Neoplatonic = Platonic (transparent) = neo + Plato + ic

Formed by the productive prefix 'neo-' added to 'Platonic'; the meaning 'new/revived form of Platonic thought' is directly inferable.

Etymology

The word Neoplatonic comes from the prefix neo- meaning 'new' and Platonic from the philosopher Plato, so it describes a 'new' form of Plato's ideas, often about spiritual reality and unity.