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 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2021 by Maria-Teresa Teixeira, Aljoscha Berve, Moirika Reker and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. 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 UUnitynity 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 .