When we survey the treatment that God has received from philosophers down through the millennia, it is not hard agree with Unamuno’s assessment of the god of philosophy as “a dead thing”.

Plotinus is regarded as the founding father of Neo-Platonism, and influenced Saint Augustin’s thought, maybe even after the latter’s conversion to Christianity.

Who or what is the “god of the philosophers”? When we find references to “god” in the ancient teaching of oriental, Indian and Greek thinkers, who or what, are they referring to?