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

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

By: Abraham P. Bos

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

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

By: Abraham P. Bos

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

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Proposes an innovative rethinking of Aristotles work as a system that integrates his theology with his doctrine of reproduction and life. In this deep rethinking of Aristotles work, Abraham P. Bos argues that scholarship on Aristotles 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 Gods 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 Platos metaphor of artisanal production by a divine Demiurge in favor of a biotic metaphor based on the transmission of life in reproduction, in which pneumanot breath as it is often interpreted but the life-bearing spirit in animals and plantsplays 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 Aristotles, and demonstrates Aristotles works as a unified system that sharply and comprehensively refutes Platos, and in particular replaces Platos 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 Aristotles Meteorologica: A More Disorderly Nature

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Aristotle, On the Life-Bearing Spirit (De spiritu)

A Discussion with Plato and his Predecessors on pneuma as the Instrumental Body of the Soul. Introduction, Translation, and Commentary by Abraham P. Bos and Rein Ferwerda

By: Abraham Paulus Bos,Ferwerda

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Aristotle, On the Life-Bearing Spirit (De spiritu)

A Discussion with Plato and his Predecessors on pneuma as the Instrumental Body of the Soul. Introduction, Translation, and Commentary by Abraham P. Bos and Rein Ferwerda

By: Abraham Paulus Bos,Ferwerda

In contrast to what is often thought, the work De spiritu is entirely Aristotelian. It provides an indispensable part of Aristotle’s philosophy of living nature. In this work he is the first Greek to argue that the most fundamental vital principle is not breath but vital heat. This vital heat forms a unity with the soul, as its instrumental body (sôma organikon). The treatise is mainly a debate with Plato's Timaeus. This new book consists of an Introduction, a Translation, and an extensive Commentary on the text of De spiritu. The main value of this book is to show convincingly that Aristotle’s theory of soul and biology have been misconstrued since 200 AD due to the intervention of Alexander of Aphrodisias.

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

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

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

Aristotle, On the Life-Bearing Spirit (De spiritu)

Aristotle, On the Life-Bearing Spirit (De spiritu)

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