Aristotle and the Ontology of St. Bonaventure

Bonaventure’s metaphysical thought and
his interpretation of Aristotle

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.

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"Aristotle and the Ontology of St. Bonaventure" was written by Franziska van Buren.

Franziska van Buren is a post-doctoral researcher in ancient philosophy at KU Leuven.

Yes, "Aristotle and the Ontology of St. Bonaventure" is part of the "Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Series 1" series. It's book 63 in the series.

In association with The De Wulf-Mansion Centre.

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The series' focus lies primarily on the continuity and thematic transitions between ancient, medieval and renaissance thought, but also includes volumes on specific topics related to any of those periods. ‘Philosophy' is understood broadly to include metaphysics, ethics, natural philosophy, epistemology and philosophy of mind, and philosophical theology. Since the series is particularly devoted to making available Latin and Greek source texts, we welcome critical text editions as well as contributions that are based on philological scrutiny of those texts, without losing sight of their philosophical importance.

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Researchers and graduate students in ancient, medieval and renaissance philosophy, in classics and in history.

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Russell Friedman, KU Leuven, Belgium

Editorial Board

Pieter Beullens, KU Leuven, Belgium
Lisa Devriese, KU Leuven, Belgium
Pieter d'Hoine, KU Leuven, Belgium
Jan Opsomer, KU Leuven, Belgium
Jenny Pelletier, KU Leuven, Belgium
Andrea Robiglio, KU Leuven, Belgium
Carlos Steel, KU Leuven, Belgium
Gerd Van Riel, KU Leuven, Belgium

Advisory Board

Brad Inwood, Yale Universityo, USA
Jill Kraye, The Warburg Institute, London, United Kingdom
John Marenbon, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Lodi Nauta, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Timothy Noone (†) , The Catholic University of America, USA
Robert Pasnau, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Martin Pickavé, University of Toronto, Canada,
Pasquale Porro, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Geert Roskam, KU Leuven, Belgium

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Acknowledgements
Abbreviations for Editions and Translations of Primary Texts
Introduction Chapter 1. Historical Background 1. The Neoplatonic via Proclus: The One and the Many 2. The Problem of Neoplatonism in the Christian Tradition 3. Aristotle via Avicenna and the Early Franciscan Tradition, or What Exactly Is Aristotelianism?
Chapter 2. The Theory of Forms in Thomas Aquinas 1. The Structure of Creation 2. Participation 3. Participation in the Fourth Way? 4. Participation in Exemplar Causes? 5. Conclusion
Chapter 3. The Controversy: Bonaventure and Aristotle 1. History of Scholarship on Bonaventure 2. The “Anti-Aristotelianism” of the Collationes
Chapter 4. An Aristotelian Account of Universals 1. Form, Esse, Actuality, Goodness 2. Universal Forms and Seminal Reasons 3. Universals 4. Conclusion
Chapter 5. Forms as Caused by God 1. God Beyond Being 2. Exemplar Causation 3. A Multiplicity of Ideas? 4. Conclusion
Chapter 6. Forms in the Natural World 1. Individuation 2. Light and the Question of a Plurality of Substantial Forms 3. Causation 4. Evil 5. Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources
Index

The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for "Aristotle and the Ontology of St. Bonaventure" is 10.11116/9789461664884.