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...

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...

. Various groups of philosophers influenced by Plotinus (AD 205–70) and claiming Platonic inspiration. Plotinus in his Enneads claimed to interpret and develop PLATO, basing himself especially on certain passages suggesting that reality is...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.