Antiquity Quote by Peter Adamson

The importance of Plotinus is not only his own philosophical ideas which are quite interesting, but his historical impact as the founder of neo-Platonism…

— Peter Adamson

For Plotinus, what really exists are the Platonic forms, so the true nature or form of things like justice, beauty, maybe numbers, things like…

— Peter Adamson

Plotinus is a neo-Platonist, so he would encourage us to go back to Plato.

— Peter Adamson

Plotinus is usually called the Founder of Neo Platonism and what that means is that in this philosophical circle, he was founding a kind…

— Peter Adamson

Unlike later Neo-Platonists, Plotinus says that our souls are always connected to the universal intellect and that we never really fall away.

— Peter Adamson

Before the 3rd century you're having several philosophical schools still as a going concern. You have not only the Platonists and the Aristotelians but…

— Peter Adamson

This condition of uncertainty and unrest in the Roman Empire might explain why at Plotinus' philosophy encourages us to sort of flee from the…

— Peter Adamson

“But, to return to my design, what power was it that drew those stony, oaken, and wild people into cities but flattery? For nothing…

— Erasmus

“Among Plato's successors, the most remarkable thinker to pick up this strain of argument is Plotinus. He offers little to those who would pin…

— Henning Genz

Just the way you might look at a painting and see the painting, and the painting is outside you, so this immaterial intellect would…

— Peter Adamson

Oh what would Rome be without a plot?

— Pope Alexander VI

“The European reception of Greek philosophy has been dominated by a model in which Plato and Aristotle are seen as the centers and others…

— Thomas McEvilley