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ISIDORE OF ALEXANDRIA

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ALEXANDRIA ,' See also:Greek philosopher and one of the last of the Neoplatonists, lived in See also:Athens and Alexandria towards the end of the 5th See also:century A.D. He became See also:head of the school in Athens in See also:succession to See also:Marinus who followed See also:Proclus. His views alienated the See also:chief members of the school and he was compelled to resign his position to Hegias. He is known principally as the See also:preceptor of See also:Damascius whose testimony to him in the See also:Life of Isidorus presents him in a very favourable See also:light as a See also:man and a thinker. It is generally admitted, however, that he was rather an enthusiast than a thinker; reasoning with him was subsidiary to See also:inspiration, and he preferred the theories of See also:Pythagoras and See also:Plato to the unimaginative See also:logic and the See also:practical See also:ethics of the See also:Stoics and the Aristotelians. He seems to have given loose See also:rein to a sort of theosophical See also:speculation and attached See also:great importance to dreams and waking visions on which he used to expatiate in his public discourses. Damascius' Life is preserved by See also:Photius in the Bibliotheca, and the fragments are printed in the See also:Didot edition of See also:Diogenes Laertius. See See also:Agathias, Hist. ii. 30; Photius, Bibliotheca, 181; and histories of See also:Neoplatonism.

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