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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 Neo·pla·to·nism /ˌnioˈpletəˌnɪzəm/
 新柏拉圖派哲學

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ne·o·pla·to·nism n.  A pantheistic eclectic school of philosophy, of which Plotinus was the chief (a. d. 205-270), and which sought to reconcile the Platonic and Aristotelian systems with Oriental theosophy.  It tended to mysticism and theurgy, and was the last product of Greek philosophy.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Neoplatonism
      n : a system of philosophical and religious doctrines composed
          of elements of Platonism and Aristotelianism and oriental
          mysticism; its most distinctive doctrine holds that the
          First Principle and source of reality transcends being
          and thought and is naturally unknowable; "Neoplatonism
          was predominant in pagan Europe until the 6th century";
          "Neoplatonism was a major influence on early Christian
          writers and on later medieval and Renaissance thought and
          on Islamic philosophy"