Michael Wladika, Prof. Dr. habil., holds the Chair in Christian Philosophy at the ITI Catholic University in Trumau and is also Senior University Lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Vienna. He has published extensively in the field of the history of philosophy. His specific fields of research are philosophy of classical antiquity (Plato, Aristotle), Neoplatonism (Plotinus, Proclus), St. Irenaeus, St. Ambrose, St. Augustine, early modern philosophy; especially Descartes, and German Idealism.