Aristotle and the Ontology of St. Bonaventure

Front matter

Aristotle and the Ontology of St. Bonaventure

Franziska van Buren

ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY: SERIES 1

Chapter 6. Forms In The Natural World

1. Individuation

2. Light and the Question of a Plurality of Substantial Forms 3. Causation

4. Evil

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134 137 145 154

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CONCLUSION 193 BIBLIOGRAPHY 199 Primary Sources 199 Secondary Sources 202

INDEX 209

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to extend my thanks to a number of scholars to whom I am deeply indebted for their feedback and support during the process of completing the present book: Peter Adamson (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat), who directed the doctoral dissertation on which this book is based, for his guidance and his honest advice on my dissertation from the earliest stages until its completion; the members of my doctoral dissertation committee, John Marenbon (Cambridge University) and Lydia Schumacher (King’s College, London), whose suggestions were important for the final shaping of the present book; Christopher Cullen (Fordham University), who provided me with my first opportunity to study the philosophy of Bonaventure while I was completing my undergraduate studies, and who also provided excellent comments on the book manuscript; Fabrizio Amerini (Universita degli Studi di Parma), who reviewed the manuscript for Leuven University Press, for his careful assessment which was invaluable in my revision process; and Russell Friedman (KU Leuven), the series editor, for his feedback on drafts of the manuscript and for his care and attention to my book in its final stages.

The present book is a revised version of my doctoral dissertation, submitted to Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, München in December 2020 and defended on 07 May 2021.

This publication has received support from the KU Leuven Fund for Fair Open Access and has been accomplished within the framework of the ERC project PlatoViaAristotle (AdG 885273).

ABBREVIATIONS FOR FREQUENTLY CITED EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS OF PRIMARY TEXTS

ALEXANDER OF HALES SH = Summa Halensis. In Doctoris irrefragabilis Alexandri de Hales Ordinis minorum Summa theologica, 4 vols. Quaracchi: Collegium S. Bonaventurae, 1924-48.

ARISTOTLE

Cat. = Categories. In Categories. de Interpretatione. Prior Analytics. Translated by Harold P. Cooke and Hugh Tredennick. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1938.

De An. = On the Soul. Translated by W.S. Hett. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1957.

De Cael. = On the Heavens. Translated by W. K. C. Guthrie. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939.

De Int. = On Interpretation. In Categories. On Interpretation. Prior Analytics. Translated by Harold P. Cooke and Hugh Tredennick. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1938.

Meta. = Metaphysics, Vols. I-II. Translated by Hugh Tredennick and G. Cyril Armstrong. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1933-1935.

Phys. = Physics, Vols. I-II. Translated by Philip H Wicksteed and Francis Macdonald Cornford. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1934-1957.

Poet. = Poetics. Translated by Stephen Halliwell, W. Hamilton Fyfe, Doreen C. Innes, and W. Rhys Roberts. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.

Post. An. = Posterior Analytics. Translated by Hugh Tredennick and E. S. Forster. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960.

AUGUSTINE

Civ. = The City of God, Vols. 1-7. Translated by George E. McCracken et al. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1957-2008.

Conf. = Confessions, Vols. 1-2. Translated by Carolyn J.-B. Hammond. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014-2016.

De Trin. = On the Trinity. Translated by Stephen McKenna. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Div. qu. = De Diversis quaestionibus octoginta tribu. In S. Aurelii Augustini Opera Omnia: Patrologiae Latinae Elenchus. Paris: Migne, 1844-1855.

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In Gen. ad lit. = De Genesi ad litteram. In Sancti Aureli Augustini De genesi ad litteram libri duodecim, eiusdem libri capitula, de genesi ad litteram inperfectus liber, locutionum in heptateuchum libri septem. Vindobonae: F. Tempsky, 1894.

Tr. in Ioann. = In evangelium Ioannis tractatus S. Aurelii Augustini Opera Omnia: Patrologiae Latinae. Paris: Migne, 1844-1855.

BOETHIUS Comment. in Porphyr. = In Porphyrius Commentariorum. In Opera Omnia Manlii Severini Boetii. Paris: Migne, 1891.

BONAVENTURE

Brevil. = Breviloquium. In Sancti Bonaventurae Opera Omnia (Tomus V). Ad Claras Aquas (Quaracchi): Collegium Sancti Bonaventurae, 1891.

Hex. = Collationes in Hexaemeron. In Sancti Bonaventurae Opera Omnia (Tomus V). Ad Claras Aquas (Quaracchi): Collegium Sancti Bonaventurae, 1891.

In Sent. I = Commentaria in Quatuor Libros Sententiarum: In Primum Librum Sententiarum. In Sancti Bonaventurae Opera Omnia (Tomus I). Ad Claras Aquas (Quaracchi): Collegium Sancti Bonaventurae, 1882-1883.

In Sent. II = Commentaria in Quatuor Libros Sententiarum: In Secundum Librum Sententiarum. In Sancti Bonaventurae Opera Omnia (Tomus II). Ad Claras Aquas (Quaracchi): Collegium Sancti Bonaventurae, 1885.

Itin. = Itinerarium Mentis in Deum. Translated by Zachary Hayes. Saint Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2002.

Sc. Chr. = Disputed Questions on the Knowledge of Christ. Translated by Zachary Hayes. Saint Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 1992.

DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE

DN = Divine Names. In The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite. Translated by Rev. John Parker. Oxford: James Parker and Co., 1897.

HH = Heavenly Hierarchy. In The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite. Translated by Rev. John Parker. Oxford: James Parker and Co., 1897.

MT = Mystical Theology. In The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite. Translated by Rev. John Parker. Oxford: James Parker and Co., 1897.

DUNS SCOTUS Ordinatio II = Ordinatio. In Ioannis Duns Scoti Opera Omnia VII. Civitas Vaticana: Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, 1973.

MARIUS VICTORINUS De Gen. Verb. = Liber de Generatione Verbi. In Patrologia Latina. Paris: Migne, 1844.

ABBREVIATIONS FOR EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS OF PRIMARY TEXTS XIII

PLATO

Resp. = Republic. Translated by Chris Emlyn-Jones and William Preddy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013.

Soph. = Sophist. In Theatetus. Sophist. Translated by Harold North Fowler. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1921.

Tim. = Timaeus. In Timaeus. Critias. Cleitophon. Menexenus. Epistles. Translated by Robert Gregg Bury. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1929.

PLOTINUS En. = Enneads, Vols. 1-7. Translated by A.H. Armstrong. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1966-1988.

PROCLUS

El. = The Elements of Theology. Translated by E. R. Dodds. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.

In Parm. = Proclus’ Commentary on Plato’s Parmenides. Translated by Glenn R. Morrow and John M. Dillon. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017.

THOMAS AQUINAS

BDH = An Exposition of the “On the Hebdomads of Boethius.” Translated by Janice L. Schultz and Edward A. Aynan. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2001.

DEE = On Being and Essence. Translated and edited by Armand Maurer. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1968.

DPN = De Principiis Naturae. Edited by John J. Pauson. Fribourg-Louvain: Société Philosophique, 1950.

In Meta. = Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics. Translated by John P. Rowan. Notre Dame, IN: Dumb Ox Books, 1961.

QDP = On the Power of God: Quaestiones disputate de potentia dei. Translated by the English Dominican Fathers. Westminster, MD: The Newman Press, 1952. SCG = Summa Contra Gentiles (Book One: God). Translated by Anton C. Pegis, F.R.S.C. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005.

ST I. q. 2 = Summa Theologiae, Vol. 2. Translated by Timothy McDermott, O.P. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

ST I. q. 44-48 = Summa Theologiae, Vol. 8. Translated by Thomas Gilby, O.P. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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WILLIAM OF OCKHAM

Ordinatio I = Ordinatio. In Guillelmi de Ockham Opera Philosophica et Logica: Opera Theologica I: Distinctiones II-III. Edidit Stephanus Brown, O.F.M. St. Bonaventure, NY: Insituti Franciscani Universitatis S. Bonaventurae, 1970.

Quod. = Quodlibetal Questions: Volume 2. Translated by Alfred. J. Freddoso. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.