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ISIDORE OF ALEXANDRIA

This article appears in Volume V14, Page 871 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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


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