Mor Segev

Aristotle on Religion

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 301g
• ISBN-13: 9781108401012
• ISBN-10: 1108401015
• Artikelnr.: 57434122

Autorenporträt

Mor Segev is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida. His work includes articles published or forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Polis, History of Philosophy Quarterly and Classical World.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Aristotle's rejection of the content of traditional religion
2. Traditional religion and its natural function in Aristotle
3. Humans, 'eternal humans' and Gods: the usefulness of traditional Gods for the imitation of the divine
4. Aristotle on the possible uses of the myths of 'the Ancients'
5. The influence of Aristotle's view of religion on medieval Jewish and Christian thought
6. Conclusion.