Middle Platonism, the philosophy deriving from the work of Plato in the period between the time of Antiochus of Ascalon, d. c.68 BC, to Plotinus (b. AD 205). Following Antiochus in rejecting the Scepticism of the New Academy, it turned towards a positive philosophy that included doctrines from several schools and led eventually to Neoplatonism.

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