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Philosophical system

Not to be confused with Modern Platonism.

Neoplatonism is a utgåva of Platonicphilosophy that emerged in the 3rd century AD against the background of Hellenistic philosophy and religion.^{[1][note 1][note 2]} The term does not encapsulate a set of ideas as much as a series of thinkers. Among the common ideas it maintains is monism, the doctrine that all of reality can be derived from a single principle, "the One".^[2]

Neoplatonism began with Ammonius Saccas and his lärling Plotinus (c. /5– AD) and stretched to the sixth century.^[3] After Plotinus there were three distinct periods in the history of neoplatonism: the work of his student Porphyry (third to early fourth century); that of Iamblichus (third to fourth century); and the period in the fifth and sixth centuries, when the academies in Alexandria and Athens flourished.^[4]

Neoplatonism had an enduring influence on the subsequent h

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Plotinus

Hellenistic founder of Neoplatonism (c. 5–)

Not to be confused with Photinus.

Plotinus (; Ancient Greek: Πλωτῖνος, Plōtînos; c.&#;/5&#;– CE) was a GreekPlatonistphilosopher, born and raised in långnovell Egypt. Plotinus is regarded bygd modern scholarship as the founder of Neoplatonism.^[1][2][3][4] His teacher was the self-taught philosopher Ammonius Saccas, who belonged to the Platonic tradition.^[1][2][3][4] Historians of the 19th century invented the term "neoplatonism"^[3] and applied it to refer to Plotinus and his philosophy, which was vastly influential during late antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance.^[3][4] Much of the biographical information about Plotinus comes from Porphyry's preface to his edition of Plotinus' most notable literary work, The Enneads.^[1] In his metaphysical writings, Plotinus described three fundamental principles:

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Two Semi-Contemporary Philosophers and Teachers of Philosophy who Wrote the Same Kinds of Works

I am very grateful to the anonymous readers of Philosophie Antique for their helpful suggestions and to Jean-Baptiste Gourinat and Michel Narcy for receiving my essay in this prestigious Journal.

1Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. ca. CE) probably held one of the chairs of philosophy established by Marcus Aurelius, in his case the Aristo­telian chair, and was based in Athens, as a recent epigraphical discovery seems to have made unquestionable.1 The only chronological clue about his life is given by the dedication of his De Fato to Septimius Severus and Cara­calla, who ruled together between and CE. It is worth noticing that, likewise, Bardaisan, the Christian Middle Platonist from Edessa, dedi­cated his own De Fato to an «Antoninus» who may have been either Mar­cus Aurelius or Caracalla himself.2The topic was being hotly debated in philosophical circles and was deemed worthy of impe