neo-Platonism

Examples of neo-Platonism in the following topics:

• The Church During the Italian Renaissance

  • In the revival of neo-Platonism and other ancient philosophies, Renaissance humanists did not reject Christianity; quite the contrary, many of the Renaissance's greatest works were devoted to it, and the Church patronized many works of Renaissance art.

• Neo-Expressionism

  • Neo-Expressionists sought to portray recognizable subjects in rough and violently emotional ways using vivid colors and color schemes.
  • Neo-Expressionism is a style of modern painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970s and dominated the art market until the mid-1980s.
  • Baselitz's style is interpreted as Neo-Expressionist, but from a European perspective it is seen as postmodern.
  • Elizabeth Murray is an example of a Neo-Expressionist painter who was marginalized in the movement due to her gender.
  • Critique the controversies around Neo-Expressionism related to marketability, celebrity, feminism, and intellectualism.

• Are Real Dice Fair?

  • The other four Platonic solids are the most common non-cubical dice; these can make for 4, 8, 12, and 20 faces .
  • A Platonic solids set of five dice; tetrahedron (four faces), cube/hexahedron (six faces), octahedron (eight faces), dodecahedron (twelve faces), and icosahedron (twenty faces).

• The Song Dynasty

  • The Song Dynasty was highly influenced by Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism, which were reflected in their art.
  • Buddhism also had a profound influence upon the budding movement of Neo-Confucianism, led by Cheng Yi (1033–1107) and Zhu Xi (1130–1200).
  • Although the Neo-Confucianists were critical of Taoism and Buddhism, the two did have an influence on the philosophy, and the Neo-Confucianists borrowed terms and concepts from both.
  • The influence of both Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism can be seen in a great deal of the artwork at the time, including the painted artwork of Lin Tinggui's Luohan Laundering.
  • Discuss the significance of Neo-Confucianism and literature on the art of the Song dynasty.

• Neo-Babylonia

  • The Neo-Babylonian Empire developed an artistic style motivated by their ancient Mesopotamian heritage.
  • The Neo-Babylonian Empire, also known as the Chaldean Empire, was a civilization in Mesopotamia that began in 626 BC and ended in 539 BC.
  • The Neo-Babylonian period was a renaissance that witnessed a great flourishing of art, architecture, and science.
  • Most of the evidence for Neo-Babylonian art and architecture is literary.
  • A prominent characteristic of Neo-Babylonian art and architecture was the use of brilliantly colorful glazed bricks.

• Neo-Freudian Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality

  • Neo-Freudian approaches to the study of personality both expanded on and countered Freud's original theories.
  • These theorists, referred to as Neo-Freudians, generally agreed with Freud that childhood experiences are important, but they lessened his emphasis on sex and sexuality.
  • Four particularly notable Neo-Freudians are Alfred Adler, Erik Erikson, Carl Jung, and Karen Horney.
  • Analyze the contributions of notable Neo-Freudian theorists to the field of personality psychology

• Alternative Views

  • Neoclassical and neo-Keynesian ideas can be coupled and referred to as the neoclassical synthesis, combining alternative views in economics.
  • These different perspectives have motivated economists to generate the neoclassical and neo-Keynesian perspectives.
  • Neo-Keynesian economics is often confused with 'New Keynesian' economics (which attempts to provide microeconomic foundation to Keynesian views, particularly in light of stagflation in the 1970s).
  • Neo-Keynesian economics is actually the formalization and coordination of Keynes's writings by a number of other economists (most notably John Hicks, Franco Modigliani, and Paul Samuelson).
  • Much of the conceptual value is captured in the previous atoms on Keynesian views, but the substantial value of a few neo-Keynesian ideas is worth reiterating:

• Nineveh

  • Nineveh, an Assyrian city on the Tigris River and capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, was one of the earliest, greatest cities in antiquity.
  • Nineveh was an ancient Assyrian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, and the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
  • Thus, it became one of the oldest and greatest of all the region's ancient cities, and the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
  • It was not until the Neo-Assyrian Empire, particularly from the time of Ashurnasirpal II (ruled 883–859 BCE), that Nineveh experienced a considerable architectural expansion.
  • In around 627 BCE, after the death of its last great king Ashurbanipal, the Neo-Assyrian empire began to unravel due to a series of bitter civil wars, and Assyria was attacked by its former vassals, the Babylonians and Medes.

• The Rise of the Vernacular

  • The 1250s saw a major change in Italian poetry as the Dolce Stil Novo (Sweet New Style, which emphasized Platonic rather than courtly love) came into its own, pioneered by poets like Guittone d'Arezzo and Guido Guinizelli.
  • Platonic ideas were revived and put to the service of Christianity.

• Organization of Interest Groups

  • Under neo-pluralism, a concept of political communities developed that is more similar to the British form of government
  • Neo-Pluralism: This is based on the concept of political communities in that pressure groups and other similar bodies are organised around a government department and its network of client groups.