What is "neoplatonic"

Usage examples of "neoplatonic".

In this Ascent, it certainly appears that Plato is describingand it is quite certain that his Neoplatonic successors were describingthe general movement that we have called the evolution or development from matter to body to mind to soul to spirit, culminating in the Good "beyond Being" disclosed in "sudden illumination," which is both the summit and the goal of the soul's journey in time.

Which, if you think about it, is also the Neoplatonic mechanism of Exodus and Parodos, miraculous dialectic of the Way Up and the Way Down.