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Author Van Buren, Franziska.

Title Aristotle and the Ontology of St. Bonaventure / Franziska van Buren
Published Leuven : Leuven University Press, 2023
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000
2023

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Description 1 online resource
Series Ancient and medieval philosophy. Series 1 ; 63
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Contents Historical Background -- The Theory of Forms in Thomas Aquinas -- The Controversy: Bonaventure and Aristotle -- An Aristotelian Account of Universals -- Forms as Caused by God -- Forms in the Natural World
Summary 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
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Aristotle -- Influence
Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274
SUBJECT Aristotle fast
Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274 fast
Subject Philosophy, Medieval.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Philosophy, Medieval
Form Electronic book
Author Project Muse. distributor.
ISBN 9789461664907
9461664907
9789461664884
9461664885