Plotinian

[ ploh-tin-ee-uhn ]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or in accordance with Plotinus or his philosophy.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Plotinian¹

First recorded in 1785–95; Plotin(us) + -ian

Example Sentences

From his time forward we find in Ṣúfí writings constant allusions to the Plotinian theories of emanation and ecstasy.

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He was a proof from fact that body and sense and all that is distinctively human could be sublimated into the universal substance, which is the primary effluence of the Plotinian One.

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In the middle of the fifth century, when monophysitism was at its zenith, Proclus was fashioning an intellectual machinery to express the Plotinian system.

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The "Theology of Aristotle" which, as we have seen, is really Plotinian rather than Aristotelian, was translated into Arabic in the ninth century and exerted its influence on the Brethren of Purity, a Mohammedan secret order of the tenth century.

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This signifies that its trend of thought is Neo-Platonic, which combines Aristotelian physics with Platonic and Plotinian metaphysics, ethics and psychology.

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