Middle Platonism

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In Platonism: Greek Platonism from Aristotle through Middle Platonism: its nature and history
…next important phase of Platonism, Middle Platonism or pre-Neoplatonism, was significant through the influence that it exerted in more than one direction. In the direction of Jewish culture (further described in a later section), it formed the Greek philosophical background of the efforts of Philo Judaeus (Philo of Alexandria) to…
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In Platonism: Augustinian Platonism
…of Christian Platonism; it was Middle Platonic rather than Neoplatonic in that God could not be the One beyond Intellect and Being but was the supreme reality in whose creative mind were the Platonic forms, the eternal patterns or regulative principles of all creation. Perhaps the most distinctive influence of…
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