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Neoplatonism

In Our Time: Philosophy

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How Do You Persuade Other People That These Things Exist in Their Unrealistic Reality?

There is a sense in which he's, if you like, preaching to the converted. He didn't write anything untill quite late in his life, till he was in his fifties. His surviving works are all relate to teaching in his school. A lot of them start from discussing someies, a problem in the text of plato and indeed aristotle with his pupils. There's something almost of the preacher as well as the philosopher.

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