Aristotle and the Ontology of St. Bonaventure

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Van Buren, Franziska
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leuven, Baltimore, Md. Leuven University Press, Project MUSE 2023, 202300002023
Series:Ancient and medieval philosophy. Series 1
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of 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