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Middle Platonism: General Characteristics

Theology WebSite: Church History Study Helps: Middle Platonism: General Characteristics Middle Platonism: General Characteristics Middle Platonism: General Characteristics The Platonism from the first century B.C. to the second century A.D. is called Middle Platonism. It had been prepared for in the move from skepticism to eclecticism by Antiochus of Ascalon. At this time, when the Academy was moving toward Stoicism, the Stoa was becoming more Platonic. The first century B.C. saw a revival in the study of Plato and Aristotle,who returned to a position of predominance they have not lost since. The idea of the soul as distinguished from the body reappeared and became the basis of patristic and medieval philosophy. The thinkers included among the Middle Platonists.Plutarch, Apuleius, Maximus of Tyre, and Albinus.pro.vide the bridge to Neoplatonism, the dominant philosophy at the end of paganism. Middle Platonism provided the intellectual background for the work of the Christian apologists of the second century -. Justin Martyr, Tatian, Athenagoras, Clement of Alexandria. Even in the New Testa.ment Platonsim has been seen reflected in the Epistle to the Hebrews. Middle Platonsim was Platonsim influenced by Stoic ethics, Aristotelian logic, and Neopythagorean metaphysics and religion. Roots of its metaphysics may be found in Xenocrates (head of the Academy 339.314. B.C.).

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