What's the difference between neoplatonism and neoplatonist?

Neoplatonism


Definition:

  • (n.) A pantheistic eclectic school of philosophy, of which Plotinus was the chief (A. D. 205-270), and which sought to reconcile the Platonic and Aristotelian systems with Oriental theosophy. It tended to mysticism and theurgy, and was the last product of Greek philosophy.

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  • (1) Yet the meaning is unclear, a fillip of animal optimism after a book-length, clear-eyed exaltation of Nature as a chemical and molecular and mathematical construct - Nature seized in the tightening grip of science, and stripped of the pathetic fallacy even in the sophisticated form in which Emerson's Neoplatonism couched it.
  • (2) She worked on geometry, astronomy and neoplatonic philosophy and was a popular teacher.
  • (3) His interpretation is a relapse of neoplatonism and represents antirational agnostic spiritualism with utopic antipsychiatric elements.

Neoplatonist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who held to Neoplatonism; a member of the Neoplatonic school.

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