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

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 int...

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Superior document:Ancient and medieval philosophy. Series 1 ; 63
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Place / Publishing House:Leuven : : Leuven University Press,, [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Ancient and medieval philosophy. 63.
Physical Description:1 online resource (226 pages).
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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.
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Franziska van Buren.