LA CONCEPCIÓN ARISTOTÉLICA DE LA DIVINIDAD: EL PERÍ PHILOSOPHÍAS A METAFISICA XII; TEOLOGÍA CÓSMICA Y MOTORES INMÓVILES

Abstract

The work Peri philosophías permits recognise the existence of two degrees of divinity in Aristotle: cosmic divinity and divine entities completely immutable or separated intelligences. the fragments 16 y 17 of Ross permit, besides, to infer these divine intelligences as teleological unmoved movers of the heavenly spheres with an orderly internal relation. That confirms Merlan's theory of plurality ab initio of the entity "unmoved mover" and the unity and permanence of Aristotle's theology, restoring the unity to Metaphysics XII and also establishing the unity of Aristotle's theology from Perl philosophías to De caelo and Metaphysics XII. The article ends with a reflection about the inherent order in the group of unmoved movers and with an interpretation of the "accidental movement by another" (the unmoved mover I) present in the rest of unmoved movers as a movement manifested at the heavenly world by the daily movement of the sensible spheres subsequent to the sphere of the fixed stars. So the order of sensible kósmos permits to recognise and to infer the order of intelligible kósmos. The totality of being in its several degrees reveals itself as an unitary structure: hefs kofranos ésto