Porphyry was a Neoplatonist philosopher and writer against popular superstitions. |
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A few fragments of these works survive in quotations by Neoplatonist philosophers and recently unearthed papyrus scraps. |
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The muta has indeed very much the same function as the demiurge of Neoplatonist cosmology. |
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Granted, Hudson considers it a mistake on a principled level to rate Cusanus as either a Platonist or a Neoplatonist. |
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Admittedly, the question whether, for example, aitia autoteles is equivalent to what the Neoplatonist would take arche autexousious to mean is nowhere answered. |
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