Bos Aristotle on God's Life-Generating Power and on Pneuma as Its Vehicle

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6831-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Ancient Greek Philosophy

Proposes an innovative rethinking of Aristotle’s work as a system that integrates his theology with his doctrine of reproduction and life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bos, Abraham P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. God’s Life-Generating Power and Its Transmission in Aristotle’s Biology and Cosmology

2. The Dependence of All Nature upon God

3. The Natural Desire of All Things for God

4. God as Object of Eros and Source of Attraction

5. God as Unmoved Principle of Motion and Source of Power

6. Reproduction: A Power Transmitted by the Begetter

7. Life Begins at the Moment of Fertilization

8. The Magnet as Model of a Mover at a Distance

9. God as Begetter of All Life According to On the Cosmos

10. Pneuma as the Vehicle of Divine Power in the Sublunary Region

11. Desire as a Form of Nostalgia for the Origin

12. Why Doesn’t Pneuma Play an Important Role in Ancient and Modern Interpretations of Aristotle?

13. The Dubious Lines of On the Soul II 1, 412b1–4

14. Why Can’t the Words Sôma Organikon in Aristotle’s Definition of the Soul Refer to the Visible Body?

15. Collateral Damage of the Hylomorphistic Explanation of Aristotle’s Psychology

16. Resulting Damage to the Assessment of On the Cosmos and On the Life-Bearing Spirit (De Spiritu)

17. Damage to the View of the Unity of Aristotle’s Work

18. Intellect, Soul, and Entelechy: The Golden Rope

19. Aristotle on Life-Bearing Pneuma and on God as Begetter of the Cosmos: Brief Survey of Results

Bibliography
Index of Modern Names
Index of Ancient Names
Index of Texts

Über Autor(innen)

Abraham P. Bos is Professor Emeritus of Ancient and Patristic Philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His books include Aristotle, On the Life-Bearing Spirit (De Spiritu): A Discussion with Plato and His Predecessors on Pneuma as the Instrumental Body of the Soul; The Soul and Its Instrumental Body: A Reinterpretation of Aristotle's Philosophy of Living Nature; and Cosmic and Meta-cosmic Theology in Aristotle's Lost Dialogues.