Neoplatonicn.adj.

1840 E. Cox tr. J. J. I. von Döllinger Hist. Church i. 71 The Neoplatonics [Ger. die Neuplatonister] endeavoured, therefore, to unite the different systems of philosophy, especially the Pythagorean, Platonic, and Aristotelean, in one body with the principles of oriental learning.

1879 Dublin Rev. Apr. 524 On the Catholic side no theologian has followed Scotus Erigena: his system may be called an offspring of the Neoplatonics.

1941 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 2 195 In this respect Hegel is more akin to the Neoplatonics than to the Christian thinkers like Origen and Augustine.

1999 V. Finucci Renaissance Trans. 227 For Neoplatonics, male handsomeness was of course a visualization of inner virtues.

1846 Biblical Repertory Apr. 251 This school [sc. the Alexandrian] was greatly under the influence of Gnostic, as well as Neo-platonic ideas.

1877 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals (ed. 3) I. 335 The Pythagorean and Neoplatonic schools revived the feeling of religious reverence, inculcated humility.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 42/2 In his [sc. Ibn Ezra's] philosophical thought neo-platonic ideas prevail.

1965 Language 41 502 If we treat..‘standard language’ and ‘patois’ as being ‘realizations’ or ‘styles’ of the same language, we are being Neoplatonic and hence antiscientific.

1988 Classical Rev. 38 288 The Neoplatonic reading of the Iliad and the Odyssey was not an isolated oddity.

1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 429/2 The Neoplatonically conceived Fons Vitæ of the Jew Gebirol.

1994 Philos. Rev. 103 577 Dermot Moran's monograph, interpreting Eriugena's Neoplatonically inspired system as idealist in the sense of nineteenth-century German Idealism.