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NEOPLATONISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A system of philosophical and theological doctrines composed of elements of Platonism and Aristotelianism and oriental mysticism; its most distinctive doctrine holds that the first principle and source of reality transcends being and thought and is naturally unknowable
Example:
Neoplatonism was a major influence on early Christian writers and on later medieval and Renaissance thought and on Islamic philosophy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Neoplatonism" is a kind of...):
philosophical doctrine; philosophical theory (a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy)
theological doctrine (the doctrine of a religious group)
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