By Dorothea Frede, Andre Laks
Articles during this quantity, orginally awarded on the 1998 Symposium Hellenisticum in Lille, speak about theological questions that have been principal to the doctrines of the dominant faculties within the Hellenistic age, comparable to the lifestyles of the gods, their nature, and their drawback for humankind.
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80 Mansfeld 1992a, 140. 81 Cf. Moraux 1963; id. 1973, 198-206. Simpl. in Cael. 84 But Moraux’ interpretation is not certainly right; earlier in the passage Theophrastus is commended for not having investigated the cause of ‘incorporeal and intelligible substance’, and we know from Proclus (in Ti. 18 Diehl = Theophrastus fr. 159 FHS&G) that Theophrastus criticised Plato for giving an account of the generation of the soul. If ‘incorporeal and intelligible substance’ earlier in the passage refers to the soul, ‘straying towards the intelligible’ may do so as well.
116 De mundo 6, 397b19-25, 398a10ff. Cf. Moraux 1970, 57; Kraye 1990, 341. At 398a5 that even god’s power penetrates to the terrestrial region seems to be denied; this is simple inconsistency (cf. , Aristotle: On Sophistical Refutations; On Coming-to-Be and Passing Away, Loeb Classical Library, 1955, 387 note a), but may none the less be symptomatic of a desire to minimise divine involvement in the universe. Moraux 1984, 47 notes that the god of the De mundo is an efficient cause where that of Metaphysics Lambda is only a final cause (see, however, above n.
Cited at the beginning of this note, where Simplicius regards even the claim that the Unmoved Mover is a poie¯tikon cause of the movement as involving a disagreement with Alexander. Cf. , ‘Infinite power impressed: the transformation of Aristotle’s physics and theology’, in id. ), Aristotle Transformed: the ancient commentators and their influence, London 1990, 181-198, at 191. w. sharples form of the sphere, but a separate incorporeal entity which causes movement as an object of desire. Simplicius, in Cael.
