FILO-3204 Seminario Metafísica Especial en Aristóteles
By Special Metaphysics it is understood that part of Aristotle’s Metaphysics which doesn’t have as its subject the study of being qua being (General Metaphysics), but which focuses on a special kind of being: God. The Lambda book (XII) of Metaphysics is a treaty destined to elaborate a theory regarding this special being. It is, also, one of the books which have become more relevant to scholars during the last decade, to the point where it has come to be considered as the key to understanding the whole of Aristotle’s Metaphysics. Central problems to this subject are the determination of an eternal substance, separate from the realm of the sensible, its relationship with the latter, the very possibility of an unmoved mover, and its abstract but, at the same time, particular character with causal force, its relationship with the intellect and the sublunary bodies. Aristotelian theses on this subject have profoundly influenced both Metaphysics and Theology to our day. The main sources for this seminar will be the eighth (VIII) book of the Physics and book Lambda (XII) of the Metaphysics.
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