تفسیر اسکندر افرودیسی از دیدگاه ارسطو دربارۀ عنایت الهی

Internal Review: weeks
Review: weeks
Final Decision: 45 days
Production: weeks

سینا سالاری خرم; محمد سعیدی مهر; احمد عسگری

Authors

Sina Salari Khoram Philosophy Department, Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran Author https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/ 0
Mohammad Saeedimehr Philosophy Department,, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. Author https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4663-5792
Ahamd Asgari Philosophy Deportment. Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran. Iran Author https://orcid.org/0000-0000-0000-0000

Keywords:

Alexander of Aphrodisias, divine providence, primary intention, secondary intention, to be close to

Abstract

The peripatetic tradition of reading Aristotle limits divine providence to celestial bodies and maintains that, according to Aristotle, there is just divine providence per accident by celestial bodies concerning sublunary world. Alexander of Aphrodidsias in his treatise titled as “On Providence”, however, tries to give an Aristotelian version of divine providence so that it would not be in contradiction with the exaltedness of divine causes in superlunary world and would not be per accident. We, in this essay, by pointing to the roots of his Aristotelian conception of divine providence in De Generatione et Corruption and De Caelo, shall show that his specific treatment of divine providence in Aristotle is based on a peculiar theory of causation which in turn will face him with other difficulties in denying providence per accident.