{"product_id":"aristotle-on-gods-life-generating-power-and-on-pneuma-as-its-vehicle-9781438468303","title":"Aristotle on God's Life-Generating Power and on Pneuma as Its Vehicle","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eProposes an innovative rethinking of Aristotle's work as a system that integrates his theology with his doctrine of reproduction and life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003epneuma\u003c\/i\u003e-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 \u003ci\u003eDe Mundo\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDe Spiritu\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Abraham P. Bos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/02\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 6.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438468303\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbraham P. Bos \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor Emeritus of Ancient and Patristic Philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His books include \u003ci\u003eAristotle, On the Life-Bearing Spirit (\u003c\/i\u003eDe Spiritu\u003ci\u003e): A Discussion with Plato and His Predecessors on \u003c\/i\u003ePneuma\u003ci\u003e as the Instrumental Body of the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Soul and Its Instrumental Body: A Reinterpretation of Aristotle's Philosophy of Living Nature\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eCosmic and Meta-cosmic Theology in Aristotle's Lost Dialogues\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44615041155187,"sku":"9781438468303","price":58.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_44f07ab5-3ff8-46ab-ad4b-f2fe8559c602.jpg?v=1775149893","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/aristotle-on-gods-life-generating-power-and-on-pneuma-as-its-vehicle-9781438468303","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}