The Epistemology of Neoplatonism By Anthony Faber, Phd. Perpetual (C)Copyright and (P)Patent by Anthony J. Fejfar and Neothomism, P.C.

(PA) and The American People and The People of God and The People as a Public Domain Copyright and Patent. Throughout human history there has been a running debate as to whether epistemology or philosophy of knowledge should be based upon idealism (form) or realism (substance). The intermediate position is to say that knowledge is based upon idealist realism (being). Thus, we can say that being is form of form or ideal substance. That is, ideas are composed of ideal substance, and therefore cannot simply go out of existence as a whisp in the wind. Thus, the only adequate philosophy or jurisprudence or cognitive psychology or psychology of consciousness is that which is based upon some form of idealist-realist epistemology, such as, Critical Realism (Bernard Lonergan) or Critical Thomism (Anthony Fejfar). This type of philosophy or jurisprudence is, then, a form of Neoplatonism or Neothomism.