THE ARISTOTLE’S APATHETIC THEOLOGY
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Information about authors: Filin Dmitriy Anatolyevich, PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of Department of Culturology, Kemerovo State University of Culture (Kemerovo, Russian Federation). E-mail: dmitri.fi lin1@ yandex.ru
Annotation: The apophatic aspect takes a rather serious place in Aristotle’s philosophy since it is its concluding point. In comparison to his teacher Plato Aristotle doesn’t use in his reasoning the delighted description of the Heavenly Sphere. The logic predominates over the poetry in his apophatic sphere. For Aristotle he Divine Nous is the First Cause where the antinomies of our intellect have the reconciliation. The cosmological context Aristotle’s teaching about the Divine Nous has predetermined the emphasized use of the mathematical and natural scientifi c concepts in his apophatic. God is motionless, immaterial, indivisible and infi nite in the Aristotle’s reasoning. According to Aristotle the time is endless therefore it can’t have bounded quantity. Since matter according to Aristotle implies a transition to another, it is also a concept expressed through some value. For this reason, God is an immaterial being. However, since Aristotle’s matter is conceptually broad in its meaning, it is also used in the sense of the other’s being of Eidos. There are no boundless quantities in the nature. That is why God has no quantity and consequently has no parts. Since the Heaven as the upper sphere concerns the gods apophatic logic can be applied to it in the certain context. Since the fi rst matter has the comprehensive negative predicates of the infi nity, forlornness and continuity the elements of the apophatic logic can be also applied to it. However the potential characteristic of this infi nity excludes on the whole the concept of the First Cause out of the sphere of the apophatic Theology.
Keywords: God, apophatic, the Divine Nous, the First Cause, Heaven, matter, cosmology, antinomy, dialectic, potency, infi nity, quantity, change.
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Information about authors: Filin Dmitriy Anatolyevich, PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of Department of Culturology, Kemerovo State University of Culture (Kemerovo, Russian Federation). E-mail: dmitri.fi lin1@ yandex.ru
Annotation: The apophatic aspect takes a rather serious place in Aristotle’s philosophy since it is its concluding point. In comparison to his teacher Plato Aristotle doesn’t use in his reasoning the delighted description of the Heavenly Sphere. The logic predominates over the poetry in his apophatic sphere. For Aristotle he Divine Nous is the First Cause where the antinomies of our intellect have the reconciliation. The cosmological context Aristotle’s teaching about the Divine Nous has predetermined the emphasized use of the mathematical and natural scientifi c concepts in his apophatic. God is motionless, immaterial, indivisible and infi nite in the Aristotle’s reasoning. According to Aristotle the time is endless therefore it can’t have bounded quantity. Since matter according to Aristotle implies a transition to another, it is also a concept expressed through some value. For this reason, God is an immaterial being. However, since Aristotle’s matter is conceptually broad in its meaning, it is also used in the sense of the other’s being of Eidos. There are no boundless quantities in the nature. That is why God has no quantity and consequently has no parts. Since the Heaven as the upper sphere concerns the gods apophatic logic can be applied to it in the certain context. Since the fi rst matter has the comprehensive negative predicates of the infi nity, forlornness and continuity the elements of the apophatic logic can be also applied to it. However the potential characteristic of this infi nity excludes on the whole the concept of the First Cause out of the sphere of the apophatic Theology.
Keywords: God, apophatic, the Divine Nous, the First Cause, Heaven, matter, cosmology, antinomy, dialectic, potency, infi nity, quantity, change.
