Antiquity Quote by 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

In fact one of the things about Plotinus is that he maybe not singlehandedly, but I think more than anyone else, killed off the…

— 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

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

— 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

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

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

“The greatest thinkers of Greece — Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, and later Plutarch and Plotinus — derived their ideas from ancient tradition, and further on…

— Herman Bavinck

“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

“, the core of [Al-Kindi's] philosophical enterprise was centered in the geometrical approach to the solution of all problems associated with metaphysics and cosmology.…

— Dimitri Gutas

I think it's important to realise that what happens in Neo-Platonism beginning with Plotinus and Porphyry and then going on for the next several…

— Peter Adamson

“I have come to appreciate the pivotal distinction between Plato’s concept of Eternal Truths versus Aristotle’s experience-based understanding. I also now realize the crucial…

— Ken Elmgren