{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Neoplatonism - Part 5: How the vision of return shaped centuries of thought","description":"Ideas don’t die—they migrate. Neoplatonism’s vision of unity and return did not vanish with late antiquity. It changed language, crossed borders, and shaped the world’s religions and philosophies in ways both visible and hidden. Its afterlife is one of philosophy’s great migrations.\r\n\r\nAugustine, a restless seeker, found in Neoplatonism a way to think about immaterial reality and the soul’s turn inward. He didn’t become a Neoplatonist, but he borrowed its grammar. In his hands, the inward journey became a Christian ascent, and the insistence that reality exceeds the senses became a tool for theology.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thephilosophyarchive.com/philosophy/neoplatonism","author_name":"The Archive Network"}