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Causation in Islamic Philosophy Summary
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Causation in Islamic Philosophy According to the Qurʾanic position, God is the voluntary creator of the universe. In causal theory, one finds an apparently necessary connection between cause and effect. Islamic philosophy experiences a profound...
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Neoplatonism [addendum] Summary
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Neoplatonism [addendum] When Islam took over the Middle East it came into contact with a flourishing local culture heavily influenced by Greek thought. As far as philosophy was concerned, neoplatonism was the leading approach. For example, many of the...
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Neoplatonism Summary
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Neoplatonism General Characterization Neoplatonism was the dominant philosophical current in late antiquity, and it had a lasting influence in the Middle Ages when it was adopted by Christian and Muslim thinkers. The term Neoplatonism was coined in the...
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Neoplatonism Summary
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NEOPLATONISM is the Platonic philosophy interpreted by Plotinus (205–270 CE), systematized in his Enneads and further developed by others through the sixth century. From the first century BCE, the "divine Plato" had been revived as...
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Neoplatonism Information
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Neoplatonism (also Neo-Platonism) is the modern term for a school of religious and mystical philosophy that took shape in the 3rd century AD, founded by Plotinus and based on the teachings of Plato and earlier Platonists. The term was first coined by...


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The Review of Metaphysics
Alexandrakis, Aphrodite, editor. Neoplatonism and Western Aesthetics (Studies in Neoplatonism: Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12).(Book Review)
06/01/2003: 446 words, approx. 2 pages
Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. xi + 254 pp. Cloth, $71.50; paper, $23.95--This is a very useful collection of papers on a highly significant topic, one that up to now has not received the attention it deserves. It is divided into...
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The Review of Metaphysics
NEOPLATONIC ORIGINS OF THE ACT OF BEING.(Critical Essay)
12/01/1999: 8,911 words, approx. 30 pages
IN A WELL-KNOWN ESSAY, Charles Kahn has addressed the question of "why existence does not emerge as a distinct concept in ancient Greek philosophy."(1) The assumption that gives rise to this question--namely, that the Greeks did not distinctly address the concept of existence-may seem...


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Influence of Neoplatonism on Michelangelo's Art
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Discusses two pieces of work done by Michelangelo, his marble sculpture of the Pietà and the Sistine Chapel painting The Creation of Adam. Explores how Neoplatonic ideas influenced him.


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