Aristotle

Greek philosopher. Lacordaire says Paul is "more rigorous than Aristotle and more passionate than Plato."

Works

• De Generatione Animalium
• History of Animals
• On the World
• On Wisdom According to the Egyptians
• Works of Aristotle

Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship

• ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES. — Lacordaire says Paul is "more rigorous than Aristotle"

  "he is at once more rigorous than Aristotle and more passionate than Plato"

Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture

• Chapter I: On the Excellence, Necessity, and Fruit of Sacred Scripture — Listed among philosophers who are "children" before Scripture

  "Aristotle are children"

• Chapter II: On the Object and Breadth of Sacred Scripture — Prince of philosophers alongside Plato

  "the princes of the philosophers, Plato and Aristotle"

• Chapter II: On the Object and Breadth of Sacred Scripture — Nature displayed utmost power in his genius; errors: First Mover fixed to East, world eternal, denies foreknowledge and immortality; called "butcher of intellects"

  "But Aristotle — in whose genius nature displayed the utmost extent of her power, as Averroes says"

• Chapter II: On the Object and Breadth of Sacred Scripture — Asks what God is in On the World: "God is helmsman, charioteer, choirmaster, law, commander"

  "Aristotle, or whoever is the author, in his book On the World"

• Chapter V: On the Dispositions Required for This Study — Used to say no great genius existed without admixture of madness

  "Aristotle, and following him Seneca, used to say that no great genius existed without an admixture of madness"

Commentary on the Pentateuch of Moses

• Canons Bearing a Torch Before the Pentateuch — Named in etymology discussion: "as if 'the best end'"

  "Aristotle, as if "the best end""

Chapter I (The Six Days of Creation)

• In the Beginning: Nine Interpretations — Mentioned regarding the Aristotelian definition of time as posterior to motion

  "Yet speaking in Aristotelian terms, time is at least by nature posterior to motion and to a movable body."

• In the Beginning: Nine Interpretations — Named for the erroneous view that the world is eternal

  "it is clear against Plato, Aristotle, and others that the world is not eternal."

• God (Elohim): Thirteen Definitions — Cited (or whoever is the author of On the World) for the first definition of God

  "Aristotle, or whoever is the author of the book On the World, addressed to Alexander"

• God (Elohim): Thirteen Definitions — Cited (or whoever is author of On Wisdom According to the Egyptians) for the third definition

  "Aristotle, or whoever is the author of the book On Wisdom According to the Egyptians"

• Verse 14: Let There Be Lights in the Firmament — Cited for denying eccentrics and epicycles

  "Aristotle denies all of these, when he teaches that the planets are moved only by the motion of their orb."

• Verse 22: And He Blessed Them, Saying: Increase and Multiply — Cited from Book III On the Generation of Animals, chapter 11, on the fecundity of fish

  "as Aristotle says, Book III On the Generation of Animals, chapter 11"

• Verse 26: Let Us Make Man in Our Image and Likeness — Cited for saying man by understanding becomes all things

  "man by understanding becomes, as it were, all things, as Aristotle says"

• On the Work of the Sixth Day — Cited from Book V, History of Animals, chapter 19, on fireflies in copper furnaces

  "as Aristotle attests, Book V, History of Animals, chapter 19."

Related

• Plato
• Paul the Apostle