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Neo-Platonism is an assimilation of the thoughts of Plato with other ancient and medieval thoughts, other classical ideas, and the modification of certain Christian doctrines.
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Neo-Platonism is an assimilation of the thoughts of Plato with other ancient and medieval thoughts, other classical ideas, and the modification of certain Christian doctrines. Neo-Platonist thought first appeared in the works of a group of pagan philosophers during the third and sixth centuries. Periodically over the next centuries, philosophers revisited these Neo-Platonic works and thus revived Neo-Platonic thought throughout the ages all the way to modern times. Renaissance Neo-Platonism formally began with the founding of the Florentine Academy in 1462 by Cosimo de' Medici, an action inspired by George Gemistus Pletho in 1438 when he was a delegate to the Council of Florence for the reunion of Eastern and Western Christianity. In general, the Florentine Academy read and interpreted Plato through Neo-Platonist eyes. The philosophical movement of Florentine Neo-Platonism, championed by Pico della Mirandola and by Marsilio Ficino, who during this period wrote "Consonantia Mosis et Platonis", an ideal union...
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