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L’intelligenza divina come forma di vita in Aristotele

2018

On the grounds of Met. xii, 7 this contribution construes the Aristotelian god as a form of biological life and intelligence, its essential connotation, as a form of life. Life (zoè), a term that strictly means biological life, thought or rather the reflexivity of thought, whose “act is also a pleasure” belongs to the Aristotelian god. The latter characteristic is the main reason to argue that the Aristotelian god is, like the “heart”, “a living being in a living being”, in that living organism which amounts to the universe. Accordingly the skies and the cosmos itself are self-propelled and intelligent to Aristotle, who in De Philosophia wonders whether they are also endowed with sensations…