Neoplatonism
The catalogue includes 7 thinkers in Neoplatonism.
How these pages are made
Each school page lists the thinkers in our catalogue who belong to this tradition (primary school or recorded affiliation). Dates, works and bios come from the same catalogue as the app. We do not write original essays about the school.
Thinkers in this tradition
- Giordano Bruno1548 – 1600
Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) was an Italian philosopher and former Dominican friar who envisioned an infinite universe filled with innumerable worlds, each star a sun like our own. Works such as On the Infinite Universe…
- Manly P. Hall1901 – 1990
Manly P. Hall (1901–1990) was a Canadian-born author and lecturer on the world's mystical and esoteric traditions. At just 27 he published The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928), an encyclopedic survey of symbolism,…
- Nicholas of Cusa1401 – 1464
Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) was a German cardinal, philosopher and mathematician who bridged medieval and Renaissance thought. In On Learned Ignorance (1440) he argued that the human mind approaches the infinite God…
- Paracelsus1493 – 1541
Paracelsus (1493–1541) was a Swiss physician, alchemist and natural philosopher, born Theophrastus von Hohenheim, who overturned medieval medicine. Rejecting the ancient authorities, he publicly burned canonical medical…
- Plotinus205 – 270
Plotinus (205–270) was the founder of Neoplatonism, the last great philosophical system of antiquity. Born in Egypt, he studied in Alexandria before settling in Rome, where he taught that all reality flows from a single…
- Porphyry233 – 301
Porphyry (233–301) was a Neoplatonist philosopher from Tyre and the devoted student of Plotinus, whose lectures he edited into the Enneads. His Isagoge, an introduction to Aristotle's logic, became a standard textbook…
- Proclus412 – 485
Proclus (412–485) was the last great systematizer of Greek philosophy and long-time head of the Neoplatonic Academy in Athens. In works such as the Elements of Theology he organized Neoplatonism into a rigorous chain of…