How Long to Read Aristotle on God's Life-Generating Power and on Pneuma as Its Vehicle

How Long Does it Take to Read Aristotle on God's Life-Generating Power and on Pneuma as Its Vehicle?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 44 minutes to read Aristotle on God's Life-Generating Power and on Pneuma as Its Vehicle by Abraham P. Bos

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Description

Proposes an innovative rethinking of Aristotle’s work as a system that integrates his theology with his doctrine of reproduction and life. In this deep rethinking of Aristotle’s work, Abraham P. Bos argues that scholarship on Aristotle’s philosophy has erred since antiquity in denying the connection between his theology and his doctrine of reproduction and life in the earthly sphere. Beginning with an analysis of God’s role in the Aristotelian system, Bos explores how this relates to other elements of his philosophy, especially to his theory of reproduction. The argument he develops is that in talking about the cosmos, Aristotle rejected Plato’s metaphor of artisanal production by a divine Demiurge in favor of a biotic metaphor based on the transmission of life in reproduction, in which pneuma—not breath as it is often interpreted but the life-bearing spirit in animals and plants—plays a key and sustaining role as the vital principle in all that lives. In making this case, he defends the authenticity of the treatises De Mundo and De Spiritu as Aristotle’s, and demonstrates Aristotle’s works as a unified system that sharply and comprehensively refutes Plato’s, and in particular replaces Plato’s doctrine of the soul with a theory in which the soul is clearly distinguished from the intellect. “Bos offers a fresh, interesting, and important perspective. His interpretation will be very controversial, but if he is right, the standard Anglo-American interpretation of Aristotle will have to change radically.” — Malcolm Wilson, author of Structure and Method in Aristotle’s Meteorologica: A More Disorderly Nature

How long is Aristotle on God's Life-Generating Power and on Pneuma as Its Vehicle?

Aristotle on God's Life-Generating Power and on Pneuma as Its Vehicle by Abraham P. Bos is 342 pages long, and a total of 86,184 words.

This makes it 115% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Aristotle on God's Life-Generating Power and on Pneuma as Its Vehicle Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 50 minutes to read Aristotle on God's Life-Generating Power and on Pneuma as Its Vehicle aloud.

What Reading Level is Aristotle on God's Life-Generating Power and on Pneuma as Its Vehicle?

Aristotle on God's Life-Generating Power and on Pneuma as Its Vehicle is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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