The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk (as part of its Departmental Colloquium series) by Peter Adamson (LMU Munich) on The Five Eternals: the Shocking Cosmology of a 10th Century Muslim Platonist Tuesday, 18 February, 2014, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412 ABSTRACT Among early philosophers in the Islamic world, none is more notorious than Abu Bakr al-Razi (d.925). An expert doctor, he also put forward philosophical ideas that brought accusations of heresy. It's easy to see why: he supposedly denied the validity of prophecy and postulated four eternal principles other than God, namely soul, matter, time and place. In this presentation I will introduce al-Razi's thought and focus on his innovative cosmology, showing how it draws on sources in Plato's "Timaeus".