Aristotle and the ontology of St. Bonaventure / Franziska van Buren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Buren, Franziska, author.

Series:

Ancient and medieval philosophy. Series 1 ; 63.

Ancient and medieval philosophy Series 1 ; 63

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274.

Bonaventure.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 211 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Leuven University Press, [2023]

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789461664884