Neoplatonism

evolution of Michelangelo’s art and his pursuit of beauty within it. Michelangelo’s inspiration, particularly with the idea of beauty, shifted throughout his life. In the beginning of Michelangelo’s career, he focused on a mixture of humanism and Neoplatonism ideology. During this time period, Michelangelo was inspired to create artwork that displayed the beauty of the world. He later incorporated scientific research and exploration with elements of idealism in these pieces. This method…

remarkable for what he did and extraordinary for what he wrote. If none of his books had survived, he would still have been a figure to be reckoned with. St. Augustine was a fourth century philosopher whose philosophy grew Christian doctrine with Neoplatonism. He is famous for being a Catholic theologian and for his agnostic contributions…

And it is quite possible that Condivi exaggerated the influence of nature on Buonarroti as an artist as it is quite lacking from his artworks, as he obviously always center his artwork around the human body and its myriad of positions. Though during the Renaissance they also copied and imitated the classical artworks. Michelangelo is believed to be the only one, in Winckelmann’s opinion, to obtain the classical greek image; but only in his powerful and muscular figures, not in the young and…

the Platonic academy in Athens, which is where he studied under Plutarch of Athens, which is the person who founded the Athenian school of Neoplatonism, he also studied under Syrianus. Proclus’s philosophical development was greatly influenced by his teacher Syrianus who considered him as both a pupil and a successor as leader of the Athenian school of Neoplatonism. Around the age of twenty eight Proclus produced a number of complex commentaries on different dialogues of Plato, and “when…

Life Hypatia was a famous mathematician in ancient greek. She was also a philosopher and an astronomer in Egypt, then played a part in the Byzantine Empire. In the school of Neoplatonic in Alexandria she was the smartest. She was the only daughter of Theon of Alexandria, who was also a famous mathematician. She was tutored by her father in Athens around the year 400. She was murdered by a mob of Christians, they were also referred to Parabolani after being accused of exacerbating a conflict…

It affected Augustine's thinking because of the question of how to be a real Christian; it’s so because monasticism called for people to completely leave the civilization, family, sex, career, and marriage, in order to follow Christ faithfully. The question was; was it necessary to leave all that behind because of the faith? 2. What were the conditions that led Augustine to compose On the City of God? The sack of Rome provoked Augustine to write about the apologetics against paganism in On the…

Mani was the founder of the religion Manicheanism. The reason why he is even relevant in this book is because at the end of Gnosticism, Mani was the individual to take Gnosticism and make it into a religion. The religion itself taught that life is a dualist system in which all is black or white. Also, because of this dualism, none of the things that seemed opposite shall meet. At the time, Mani was famous for his story strikingly resembling the story of Jesus. It is said that at the age of…

Transcendentalism is a philosophy that originated in the 1830's. Its chief aficionado, Ralph Waldo Emerson, began the movement by meeting regularly with other intellectuals of the time to discuss a various array of topics. The Transcendentalism movement was the mainstream flow of writers in the New England Renaissance, large in part to it affected all of the scholars of the period. The contrasting philosophy anti- Transcendentalism was a small philosophical movement predominantly consisting of…

The differences between the two sculptures however are quite vass, for instance, Michelangelo’s sculpture is also known to have represented the Neoplatonic ideals of the high Renaissance.The idea of Neoplatonism was that if one looked at and or studied a sacred image, architecture or object of beauty it would get one’s soul closer to the divine.The sculpture was created from 1501 to 1504, from a slab of marble. it is about 17ft in the height. It was…

The movie Agora depicts the escalating conflict between Christians and pagans in Roman Alexandria in the late fourth century under the emperor Theodosius I. Agora’s attempt to describe the dynamic of the conflict between Christianity and pagan Neoplatonism, especially the violence employed and shifting power, falls short of the true historical complexity by simplifying and distorting the historical narrative. Agora’s portrayal of the Christian faction known as the parabalani and their…