Buren, F: Aristotle and the Ontology of St. Bonaventure

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-94-6270-356-8
Verlag: Leuven University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 63, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 482 g

Reihe: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Series 1

Bonaventure’s metaphysical thought and
his interpretation of Aristotle
Contemporary scholarship on Bonaventure has
characterized him as the Neo-platonic foil to the Aristotelianism of his day.
The present book, however, shows a Bonaventure who is highly enthusiastic about
utilizing the philosophy of Aristotle and who centers much of his
philosophical project around interpreting and understanding the texts of Aristotle.
Two goals are central to this book. The first is to shed light on Bonaventure’s
greatly understudied ontology and theory of forms, demonstrating how his
philosophical system is an important and unique alternative to other medieval
Aristotelian systems. The second is to establish, more broadly, how
Bonaventure’s interpretation of Aristotle is a resource which should be mined
for contemporary efforts in thinking about and reading Aristotle himself.

Ebook available in Open Access.
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Autoren/Hrsg.

van Buren, Franziska

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations for Editions and Translations of Primary Texts
Introduction Chapter 1. Historical Background 1. The Neoplatonic via Proclus: The One and the Many 2. The Problem of Neoplatonism in the Christian Tradition 3. Aristotle via Avicenna and the Early Franciscan Tradition, or What Exactly Is Aristotelianism?
Chapter 2. The Theory of Forms in Thomas Aquinas 1. The Structure of Creation 2. Participation 3. Participation in the Fourth Way? 4. Participation in Exemplar Causes? 5. Conclusion
Chapter 3. The Controversy: Bonaventure and Aristotle1. History of Scholarship on Bonaventure 2. The “Anti-Aristotelianism” of the Collationes
Chapter 4. An Aristotelian Account of Universals 1. Form, Esse, Actuality, Goodness 2. Universal Forms and Seminal Reasons3. Universals 4. Conclusion
Chapter 5. Forms as Caused by God 1. God Beyond Being 2. Exemplar Causation 3. A Multiplicity of Ideas? 4. Conclusion
Chapter 6. Forms in the Natural World 1. Individuation 2. Light and the Question of a Plurality of Substantial Forms 3. Causation 4. Evil 5. Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources
Index

Über Autor(innen)

van Buren, Franziska
Franziska van Buren is a post-doctoral researcher in ancient philosophy at KU Leuven.