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HoP 047 God Only Knows: Aristotle on Mind and God

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Aristotle's Theology of God

Aristotle's god is very much a god of the philosophers in every sense of that phrase. The heavens imitate his thinking by their unending celestial rotations. Even plants and animals imitate the divine through reproduction, which allows them to attain a kind of immortality of their own. By setting up sound systems of governments our cities, we humans can imitate the order of the universe. But i'm sure plato wouldn't mind your electing to join me next time for aristotle's political philosophy here on the history of philosophy without any gaps.

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