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What philosophical school did Bessarion belong to?

  • Neoplatonism

  • Aristotelianism

  • Epicureanism

  • Stoicism

Answer

Bessarion was a follower of Neoplatonism, a philosophical system that originated in the 3rd century and was based on the teachings of Plato. His teacher, Gemistus Pletho, was also a Neoplatonist philosopher.
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