Mind in Nature : Bridging Process Philosophy

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Mind in Nature:

Bridging Process Philosophy and Neoplatonism

Edited by Maria-Teresa Teixeira, Aljoscha Berve and Moirika Reker

Mind in Nature: Bridging Process Philosophy and Neoplatonism

Edited by Maria-Teresa Teixeira, Aljoscha Berve and Moirika Reker

This book first published 2021

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK

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ISBN (10): 1-5275-6220-4 ISBN (13): 978-1-5275-6220-2 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Michael Wagner 1952-2020 ...... vii

List of Abbreviations ...... ix

Preface ...... xi

The End of Final Causality in Plotinus’ Process Understanding of Nature and Order ...... 1 Michael F. Wagner

Uneasy Rapprochement of the Neoplatonic Eternity and Christian Historicity in the Thought of Ioane Petritsi ...... 30 Levan Gigineishvili

Schopenhauer and Platonic Metaphysics. Towards a New Interpretation of the World as Will and Representation ...... 39 Carlos João Correia

Whitehead’s Appropriation of Plato’s FZUD: Its Meaning and Effect for a Philosophy of Natural Experience ...... 50 Luca Vanzago

UnityUnity andand MultiMultiplicity:ppylicity: ThThee RRoadoad to OOpenness.penness. PlotinusPlotinus in HHenrienri BBergson’sergson’s Thought ...... 59 MagdaMagda CostaCosta CCarvalhoarvalho

A Bergsonian Reading of Plotinus’ Theory of Time ...... 75 José C. Baracat Jr.

The Unity between Beauty and Good: Ethics of Contemplation and the Creation of Gardens ...... 86 Moirika Reker

Infinity and Unity: From Eriugena to Whitehead ...... 96 Maria-Teresa Teixeira vi Table of Contents

The World ‘Hangs Together’: Nature, Non-Being, and Infinity in John Scotus Eriugena and Alfred North Whitehead ...... 111 Alex Haitos

God and Creation in A.N. Whitehead and Dionysius the Areopagite .... 121 Helmut Maaßen

Saint Augustine’s Numerical Aesthetics in the Light of Process Metaphysics ...... 138 Ana Rita Ferreira

Nature With or Without Mind? – Science and the View from Nowhere in the 19th Century ...... 148 Dennis Sölch

Symbolism and Dialogue: The Language of Discovery ...... 166 Aljoscha Berve

The Concepts of “Creation” in the Late Philosophy of A. N. Whitehead ...... 184 Michel Weber

A Process of Merging the Interior and Exterior Reality: A Short View on the Structure of Credition ...... 201 Hans-Ferdinand Angel

Afterword ...... 220

Contributors ...... 221