Neoplatonism was a school of philosophy that developed from the thought of Plato, and its founder is generally considered to be Plotinus, who settled in Rome in the middle of the third century CE and taught there. His disciple Porphyry edited his writings as the Enneads. Plotinus described reality as an emanation from a single ultimate principle, the One, through Intellect and Soul to the material world, and held that the soul could return to the One through contemplation. Later thinkers such as Iamblichus and Proclus developed it further. Neoplatonism influenced Christian thinkers such as Augustine, Islamic and Jewish philosophy, and Renaissance humanists.
Before and after
- c. 233 CEEruption of Taupo
- from 235 CE to 284 CECrisis of the Third Century
- 238 CEConstruction of Roman amphitheatre of El Jem
- c. 240 CEEruption of Ksudach
- 245 CERise of Neoplatonism
- 250 CEDeath of Nagarjuna
- from 250 CE to 538 CEKofun period
- from 266 CE to 420 CEJin dynasty
- 271 CEOrigins of Gundeshapur
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- c. 601 BCEThe Lydians mint the first coins
- 5th century BCERise of Cynicism
- c. 320 BCERise of pyrrhonism
- from 8 CE to 73 CERise of Zealotry
- c. 330 CEKing Ezana converts Aksum to Christianity
- 27 February 380 CEChristianity becomes the state religion of Rome
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