Byzantine Platonism

Target entity: Byzantine Platonism
Context triple: [Michael Psellos, movement, Byzantine Platonism]

• A. Neoplatonism
  Neoplatonism is a philosophical system developed in the Roman Empire that reinterprets and extends Plato’s ideas into a metaphysical framework centered on a single transcendent source from which all reality emanates.
• B. Middle Platonism
  Middle Platonism was a philosophical movement in the Hellenistic and early Roman periods that revived and systematized Plato’s ideas, blending them with elements of Aristotelianism and Stoicism and laying groundwork for later Neoplatonism.
• C. Christian Platonism
  Christian Platonism is a philosophical and theological tradition that integrates Platonic metaphysics and concepts with Christian doctrine, especially concerning the nature of God, the soul, and the afterlife.
• D. Syrian school of Neoplatonism
  The Syrian school of Neoplatonism was a late antique philosophical movement, centered in Syria and associated especially with Iamblichus, that emphasized theurgy, religious ritual, and a more elaborate metaphysical hierarchy than earlier Neoplatonism.
• E. Platonic Theology
  Platonic Theology is Proclus’ major Neoplatonic treatise that systematically expounds the hierarchy of divine principles and the metaphysical structure of reality as interpreted from Plato’s philosophy.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Byzantine Platonism
Target entity description: Byzantine Platonism was a medieval philosophical tradition within the Byzantine Empire that revived and adapted ancient Platonic thought—often in dialogue with Christianity—through figures such as Michael Psellos.

• A. Neoplatonism
  Neoplatonism is a philosophical system developed in the Roman Empire that reinterprets and extends Plato’s ideas into a metaphysical framework centered on a single transcendent source from which all reality emanates.
• B. Middle Platonism
  Middle Platonism was a philosophical movement in the Hellenistic and early Roman periods that revived and systematized Plato’s ideas, blending them with elements of Aristotelianism and Stoicism and laying groundwork for later Neoplatonism.
• C. Christian Platonism
  Christian Platonism is a philosophical and theological tradition that integrates Platonic metaphysics and concepts with Christian doctrine, especially concerning the nature of God, the soul, and the afterlife.
• D. Syrian school of Neoplatonism
  The Syrian school of Neoplatonism was a late antique philosophical movement, centered in Syria and associated especially with Iamblichus, that emphasized theurgy, religious ritual, and a more elaborate metaphysical hierarchy than earlier Neoplatonism.
• E. Platonic Theology
  Platonic Theology is Proclus’ major Neoplatonic treatise that systematically expounds the hierarchy of divine principles and the metaphysical structure of reality as interpreted from Plato’s philosophy.
• F. None of above. chosen