The Ethical Approach to Theism
The Ethical Approach to Theism
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, 1154b 26 ; X. , 1177b 33.
ARISTOTLE AND CHRISTIAN THEISM 77 so that life and duration continuous and eternal belong to God; for this is God. " 1 But Aristotle was still sufficiently a child of his age to desire to connect perfection of being and intellect with an exalted and unique position in the universe of space. Thus he relates the perfect and unimpeded activity of the Divine Mind to that which he considered the most perfect and constant motion, the circular motion of the highest heaven o...r primum mobile ; for this, he held, was nearest to the divine and partook most fully of the nature of its activity. This naive identifica- tion of the cosmic with the spiritual order has long since become impossible to maintain in any literal sense. Yet as a metaphorical and poetic expression of the truth that there is an ultimate synthesis of activity and rest it has its own enduring value. For do we not find it reproduced in the transcendent im- agery of the Paradiso, which was for Dante something more than imagery, and which still has a profound truth for the thinker who 1 Metaph.
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, 1154b 26 ; X. , 1177b 33.
ARISTOTLE AND CHRISTIAN THEISM 77 so that life and duration continuous and eternal belong to God; for this is God. " 1 But Aristotle was still sufficiently a child of his age to desire to connect perfection of being and intellect with an exalted and unique position in the universe of space. Thus he relates the perfect and unimpeded activity of the Divine Mind to that which he considered the most perfect and constant motion, the circular motion of the highest heaven o...r primum mobile ; for this, he held, was nearest to the divine and partook most fully of the nature of its activity. This naive identifica- tion of the cosmic with the spiritual order has long since become impossible to maintain in any literal sense. Yet as a metaphorical and poetic expression of the truth that there is an ultimate synthesis of activity and rest it has its own enduring value. For do we not find it reproduced in the transcendent im- agery of the Paradiso, which was for Dante something more than imagery, and which still has a profound truth for the thinker who 1 Metaph.
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