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An 18 page paper which examines how the concepts of neo-Platonism are portrayed in these four classic English poems. Bibliography lists 14 sources.
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been at odds as one attempts to achieve dominance over the other in terms of influencing prevailing social attitudes. When philosophy wins out, the philosopher is immediately labeled a
heretic by the religious establishment. For example, when Socrates was publicly tried for allegedly corrupting Athenian youth, he was accused of advocating paganism, a charge he vigorously denied.
After being convicted and put to death, his most loyal student Plato picked up the philosophical torch, which burned even more brightly in his hand. For Plato, philosophy was
as it had been for Socrates - an uncompromising pursuit of knowledge, and trying to explain the unexplained. Unfortunately, after the deaths of Plato and his student Aristotle, philosophy
once again took a back seat to religion, and theological conclusions such as the creation theory took precedence over the more intellectual and scientific contentions of Plato and Aristotle.
But philosophers were not about to go quietly into the pages of history. In the third century A.D., an Egyptian scholar named Plotinus (205-270) revisited Platonic philosophy, and his
interpretation became known as new or neo-Platonism. With Plotinus, religion and philosophy were again reunited but it would once more prove to be a tumultuous coupling that would inspire
some of the greatest and most controversial works of Western prose. I. Neo-Platonism As conceived by Plato, the Good does not necessarily begin and end with God, but is
the result of a connection with beauty and love, "which tempers what would otherwise be a purely intellectual process" (Garton 154). In Plotinuss view, the cosmos was not created
in an orderly manner by a distant God; it was little more than an example of the soul expressing itself. Contrary to ancient religious beliefs, neo-Platonism as determined by
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