Neoplatonism
In Our Time: Philosophy
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The Origins of Neoplatonism
In neoplatonism, unreal forms are actually the progenitors of the reality that we live in. That's one of the sources of the neo platonic notion of the one. And then they're putting that together with a much less well known dialogue of plato,. where there is a very strange discussion of the one as the ultimate reality. Erm, perhaps there are also influences, which are very hard to pin down, from eastern thought, indian thought and so on. As we mentioned em plotinus also, according to porphyry er, four times in his life, had a mystical experience of some kind of union with the one. In fhact it's
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