Aristotle And The Theology Of The Living Immortals

Author : Richard Bodeus
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791447286

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Aristotle and the Theology of the Living Immortals by Richard Bodeus Pdf

This book argues that Aristotle used "the most traditional Greek ideas about the gods" to develop and defend his physical, metaphysical, and ethical teachings. This revolutionary thesis stands in stark contrast to studies of Aristotle's texts that normally portray him as a "natural theologian" using rational tools to elaborate his own conception of God or the gods. Bodeus argues that Aristotle is more closely aligned with popular Greek religion than is usually thought, and attention to the ethical and political writings reveals more about Aristotle's resources for conceiving the gods than study of his theoretical works.

Author : Abraham P. Bos
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438468297

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Aristotle on God's Life-Generating Power and on Pneuma as Its Vehicle by Abraham P. Bos Pdf

Proposes an innovative rethinking of Aristotle’s work as a system that integrates his theology with his doctrine of reproduction and life. In this deep rethinking of Aristotle’s work, Abraham P. Bos argues that scholarship on Aristotle’s philosophy has erred since antiquity in denying the connection between his theology and his doctrine of reproduction and life in the earthly sphere. Beginning with an analysis of God’s role in the Aristotelian system, Bos explores how this relates to other elements of his philosophy, especially to his theory of reproduction. The argument he develops is that in talking about the cosmos, Aristotle rejected Plato’s metaphor of artisanal production by a divine Demiurge in favor of a biotic metaphor based on the transmission of life in reproduction, in which pneuma—not breath as it is often interpreted but the life-bearing spirit in animals and plants—plays a key and sustaining role as the vital principle in all that lives. In making this case, he defends the authenticity of the treatises De Mundo and De Spiritu as Aristotle’s, and demonstrates Aristotle’s works as a unified system that sharply and comprehensively refutes Plato’s, and in particular replaces Plato’s doctrine of the soul with a theory in which the soul is clearly distinguished from the intellect. “Bos offers a fresh, interesting, and important perspective. His interpretation will be very controversial, but if he is right, the standard Anglo-American interpretation of Aristotle will have to change radically.” — Malcolm Wilson, author of Structure and Method in Aristotle’s Meteorologica: A More Disorderly Nature

Author : Mor Segev
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108415255

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Aristotle on Religion by Mor Segev Pdf

Provides a comprehensive account of the socio-political role Aristotle attributes to traditional religion, despite rejecting its content.

Author : Richard Bod??s
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791416097

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The Political Dimensions of Aristotle's Ethics by Richard Bod??s Pdf

A study in the best tradition of classical scholarship, showing mastery of commentary and scholarship in eight languages, this book argues that the Ethics is integral to a series of politically oriented philosophical addresses aimed at morally mature political leaders. Bodeus's critical review of the major approaches to Aristotle's texts is an excellent introduction to the subject.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781647920937

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Aristotle's Theology by Aristotle Pdf

"Even those already familiar with Aristotle may be surprised to learn that discussions of theological topics can be found in so many of his works. Reeve's idea of packaging these texts sequentially along with commentary and notes is brilliant. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in Aristotle's theology." —S. Marc Cohen,Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, University of Washington

Author : Helen S. Lang
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791410838

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Aristotle's Physics and Its Medieval Varieties by Helen S. Lang Pdf

This book considers the concepts that lay at the heart of natural philosophy and physics from the time of Aristotle until the fourteenth century. The first part presents Aristotelian ideas and the second part presents the interpretation of these ideas by Philoponus, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, John Buridan, and Duns Scotus. Across the eight chapters, the problems and texts from Aristotle that set the stage for European natural philosophy as it was practiced from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries are considered first as they appear in Aristotle and then as they are reconsidered in the context of later interests. The study concludes with an anticipation of Newton and the sense in which Aristotle's physics had been transformed.

Author : Richard Kraut
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198782004

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Aristotle by Richard Kraut Pdf

This book presents a wide-ranging overview of Aristotle's political thought that makes him come alive as a philosopher who can speak to our own times. Beginning with a critique of subjectivist accounts of well-being, Kraut goes on to assess Aristotle's objective and universalistic account ofeudaimonia and excellent activity. He offers a detailed interpretation of Aristotle's conception of justice in the Nicomachean Ethics, and then turns to the major themes of the Politics: the political nature of human beings, the city's priority over the individual, the justification of slavery, thedefence of the family and property, the pluralistic nature of cities and the need for their unification, the distinction between good citizenship and full virtue, the value and limits of popular control over elites, the corrosive effects of poverty and wealth, the critique of democratic conceptionsof freedom and equality, and the radically egalitarian institutions of the ideal society. Aristotle's political philosophy, as Kraut reads it, provides a model of the way in which a rich understanding of human well-being can guide the amelioration of a world in which agreement about the human goodis rarely, if ever, achieved.

Author : David Bolotin,Aristotle
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0791435520

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An Approach to Aristotle's Physics by David Bolotin,Aristotle Pdf

Argues that Aristotle's writings about the natural world contain a rhetorical surface as well as a philosophic core and shows that Aristotle's genuine views have not been refuted by modern science and still deserve serious attention.

Author : Gerard Naddaf
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791483671

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The Greek Concept of Nature by Gerard Naddaf Pdf

Explores the origin and evolution of the Greek concept of nature up until the time of Plato.

Author : S. M. Connell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107197732

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The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Biology by S. M. Connell Pdf

Comprehensive overview of all the key issues in Aristotle's biological works and their place within his broader philosophy and theology.

Author : Errol G. Katayama
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791443175

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Aristotle on Artifacts by Errol G. Katayama Pdf

Investigates Aristotle's views on the ontological status of artifacts in the Metaphysics, with implications for a variety of metaphysical problems.

Author : Leo Elders
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Aristotle
ISBN : UOM:49015000719147

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Aristotle's Theology by Leo Elders Pdf

Author : Ovey N. Mohammed
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781554587544

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Averroës’ Doctrine of Immortality by Ovey N. Mohammed Pdf

The introduction of Aristotelianism into the West created conflict, disruption, and turmoil. Not least, it confronted the Middle Ages with a serious problem concerning the possible conflict between reason and faith. In part, the controversy surrounding Aristotelianism in the Christian world came from the Islamic channels through which much of the Aristotelian philosophical heritage came to the West. The great turning point of Christian thought, the point at which Christian intellectual history began to be dominated by Aristotelian patterns, began when Christian scholars were exposed not only to the philosophy of Aristotle, but also to the commentaries of Averroes. The names of Averroes and Aristotle became inextricably linked by the middle of the thirteenth century. A clear and careful analysis of the links between the thoughts of Averroes and Aristotle, an explication of the impact of Averroes' thought on Christian theology and on Aquinas in particular, this monograph is of crucial importance in the history of Christianity. It is emphatically apposite to the discussion of monistic and qualistic theological anthropologies. Further, the discussion throws light upon a topic which should be of much greater interest to scholars: the impact of Islam upon medieval Christian thought. Mohammed centres specifically upon Averroes' doctrine of immortality—a doctrine that posited immortality for man as a being entire, not merely for his soul.

Author : Peter Harrison,Jon H. Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192571540

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Science Without God? by Peter Harrison,Jon H. Roberts Pdf

Can scientific explanation ever make reference to God or the supernatural? The present consensus is no; indeed, a naturalistic stance is usually taken to be a distinguishing feature of modern science. Some would go further still, maintaining that the success of scientific explanation actually provides compelling evidence that there are no supernatural entities, and that true science, from the very beginning, was opposed to religious thinking. Science without God? Rethinking the History of Scientific Naturalism shows that the history of Western science presents us with a more nuanced picture. Beginning with the naturalists of ancient Greece, and proceeding through the middle ages, the scientific revolution, and into the nineteenth century, the contributors examine past ideas about 'nature' and 'the supernatural'. Ranging over different scientific disciplines and historical periods, they show how past thinkers often relied upon theological ideas and presuppositions in their systematic investigations of the world. In addition to providing material that contributes to a history of 'nature' and naturalism, this collection challenges a number of widely held misconceptions about the history of scientific naturalism.

Author : Michael Jon Kessler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199769278

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Political Theology for a Plural Age by Michael Jon Kessler Pdf

Based on a conference held in Oct. 2008 at Georgetown University.