Note 27 — Chapter IX · MATERIAL AND INTELLECTUAL PROGRESS IN SPAIN, 1031-1276
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Neoplatonism was a late and decadent form of the Greek philosophies. It endeavored to unite the precepts of Christian, Jewish, and oriental religions, and displayed a disregard for the empirical investigation of the universe, holding that the way to redemption lay through rising superior to the material manifestations of life.