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Neo-Pythagoreanism

Neo-Pythagoreanism A school of thought initiated in Alexandria, according to Cicero, by Nigidius Figulus, a Roman philosopher who died in 45 B.C. It was compounded of traditional Pythagorean teachings, various Platonic, Aristotelian and Stoic doctrines, including some mystical and theosophical elements. — J.J.R. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Neo-Pythagorean Philosophy

Neo-Pythagorean Philosophy The ethico-religious society founded by Pythagoras, which flourished especially in Magna Græcia in the fifth century B. C., disappears completely from history during the fourth century, when philosophy reached the zenith of its perfection at Athens. Here and there, however, there appears a philosopher who reverts to the Pythagorean doctrine of numbers, and … Continue reading “Neo-Pythagorean Philosophy”

Neo-Platonism

Neo-Platonism A system of idealistic, spiritualistic philosophy, tending towards mysticism, which flourished in the pagan world of Greece and Rome during the first centuries of the Christian era. It is of interest and importance, not merely because it is the last attempt of Greek thought to rehabilitate itself and restore its exhausted vitality by recourse … Continue reading “Neo-Platonism”

Neo-Manichaeans

Neo-Manichaeans was the name of a Christian sect which, like the Priscillianists and Paulicians, denied the resurrection of the flesh; and, like the Quakers and Swedenborgians of our own day, thought that after death the soul became the inhabitant of a spiritual body. In other respects the Neo-Manicheans held the views of the Manicheeans (q.v.). … Continue reading “Neo-Manichaeans”

Neo-Kantianism

Neo-Kantianism A group of Kantian followers who regard the thing-in-itself or noumenal world as a limiting concept rather than, as did Kant, an existent, though unknowable realm. Reality is for the Neo-Kantians a construct of mind, not another realm. Even Kant’s noumenal world is a construct of mind. The phenomenal world is the real and … Continue reading “Neo-Kantianism”