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<p> (so called because he was a porter in early life), a philosopher of [[Alexandria]] toward the end of the second century. He is considered as the founder of the Neo-Platonic Philosophy. Plotinus, Longinus, and Origen, were among his pupils. His object was to reconcile [[Plato]] and Aristotle, and hence his school was called eclectic. [[Ammonius]] had been educated in Christianity; and he seems never to have abandoned the name of the faith, while he was disparaging its doctrines and its essence. [[Porphyry]] asserts that Ammonius deserted Christianity, [[Eusebius]] (Hist. Eccl. 6, 19) that he adhered to it. To these two opinions, variously advocated by most modern divines, others have added a third, that Eusebius mistook a [[Christian]] writer of the same name for the heathen philosopher; and this is warmly maintained by Lardner (Works, 2, 439; 7, 446). He was a man of great talents and energy, and indefatigable in the pursuit of knowledge. — Waddington, Ch. Hist. ch. 3; Tennemann, Hist. Phil. § 203; Brucker, Hist. Phil. 2, 205; Mosheim, Comm. 2, 348, 7; Simon, Hist. de l'cole d' Alexandrie. 1, 204; Dehaut, Essai sur Ammonius Saccas (Bruxelles, 1836, 4to). (See [[Alexandrian]] School); (See [[Eclectics]]); (See New Platonists). </p>

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