Studia Theologica 2024, 26(3):75-96 | DOI: 10.5507/sth.2024.025309
This paper analyses the concept of “divine property” in the context of the works of Yeda’yah ha-Penini, a Jewish Aristotelian and Averroist philosopher living at the turn of the fourteenth century in southern France. Specific property in Aristotelian philosophical terminology refers to property shared by one species. In medical and mystical literature, it means a specific property of an unusual nature that is difficult to perceive by the senses. I demonstrate that three original concepts of specific properties can be found in Yeda’yah’s conception: (1) a specific property that accounts for individual differences between individuals, (2) a specific intellectual property that is shared by a small group of intellectually gifted ones, and finally (3) a specific divine property that is a power which places God into things. I point out that he connects it to a teleological structure which helps to understand the emergence of new life out of inanimate matter.
Vloženo: červen 2023; Revidováno: červen 2024; Přijato: červen 2024; Zveřejněno: prosinec 2024
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