illuminationist

Bonaventure understood that the step from a true proposition to divine truth is a large one, so he advocates a moderate illuminationist position, one that depends on both divine and created causes.

Amputee 2009

In his illuminationist writings, Suhrawardī relies on Neoplatonism but replaces such concepts as being and existence with light and illumination, thus offering what can be called a gnostic-illuminationist version of Avicennian philosophy (Aminrazavi 2003).

Mysticism in Arabic and Islamic Philosophy Aminrazavi, Mehdi 2009

The Niche of Light (Mishkāt al-anwār), a significant work of an illuminationist nature and one that influenced the formation of the doctrine of illumination (ishrāq) by Suhrawardī (Aminrazavi 1996).

Mysticism in Arabic and Islamic Philosophy Aminrazavi, Mehdi 2009

The fullest development of this neoplatonic approach to God stood ready to be realized, when all three routes, the aitiological, illuminationist, and ontological, would be scouted out by one and the same philosophical mind.

Amputee 2009

It must be admitted that there is a great deal about Grosseteste's attempt to explicate Aristotelian science within the framework of an illuminationist epistemology that remains obscure.

Robert Grosseteste Lewis, Neil 2007

The notion of light occupies a prominent place in Grosseteste's commentaries on the Bible, in his account of sense perception and the relation of body and soul, in his illuminationist theory of knowledge, in his account of the origin and nature of the physical world, and, of course, in his writings on optics.

Robert Grosseteste Lewis, Neil 2007

[An important study of Grosseteste's epistemology, though Marrone's view that Grosseteste was distancing himself from an illuminationist epistemology in the commentary on the Posterior Analytics is generally rejected by scholars.]

Robert Grosseteste Lewis, Neil 2007

Grosseteste saw the need to to relate his illuminationist account of knowledge to Aristotle's account of scientific knowledge.

Robert Grosseteste Lewis, Neil 2007

Grosseteste subscribes, under Augustine's influence, to an illuminationist theory of human knowledge.

Robert Grosseteste Lewis, Neil 2007

I starter writing, well, more like transcribing like an old monastery illuminationist.

2/27/05 - 3/6/05 Rogers 2005