Round 13: Tossup 1

This school used terms translating to “procession” and “return” to describe the consciousness turning back to understand its own existence. Thinkers in this philosophical school struggled with its founder’s claim that matter is “evil itself” but derived from a divine source. This school’s designation of the soul and the consciousness existing in “hypostasis” with supreme reality presaged a religion’s theological debates. A thinker in this school compiled his teacher’s work into the Six Enneads. Despite heavily influencing St. (10[1])Augustine’s concepts of the logos, this school’s chief institution in Athens was shut down by Justinian I for its rejection of Christianity. For 10 points, name this school of philosophy whose proponents like Porphyry and Plotinus (“plo-TYE-nus”) revived ideas found in dialogues like Timaeus and Crito. ■END■

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