Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Neo K. Platonism


Neoplatonism: “the intellectualist reply to the … yearning for personal salvation.”  (Frederick Copleston, A History of Philosophy, p. 216)

I like this definition a lot.  A lot.  Know just the bare skeletal framework of Neoplatonism, this mystical philosophy that thrived for about three centuries (c. 250-550 AD), but figured I should bone up on it since it seems to play such a big part of The Exegesis of Phillip K. Dick, the mammoth tome I’ve now sunk my teeth in.

I’m keeping notes so anything supra-revelatory or chill-inducing I’ll post here under weirdities.

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