Neoplatonism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...form an idealistic philosophy and thus combat the trends of Stoicism and skepticism that had crept into interpretations of the philosophy...the later writings of Plato, particularly the Timaeus, and Stoicism had identified the World Soul with transcendent universal reason...