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Neo-Platonism

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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A system of philosophy that originated in Alexandria at the beginning of the 3rd century, which resolved the absolute, or God, into the incarnation thereof in the Logos, or reason of man, and which aimed at "demonstrating the graduated transition from the absolute object to the personality of man"; it was a concretion of European thought and Oriental.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Neo-Platonism'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​n/neo-platonism.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
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