Željko Kaluđerović

Faculty of philosophy

Novi Sad

The God of the Stagira Philosopher

Abstract

In this paper the author analyzes Aristotle's specific understanding of God, primarily from the perspective of the twelfth book of the Metaphysics. The God of the Stagira philosopher, it is emphasized, is not something truly transcending the world, but present in all aspects of Greek life and slates of Greek reality. Aristotle's God did not even create the world, which has always been and always will be, it has only provided the eternal movement through the movement of the first heaven by thinking and through final cause. The Unmoved Mover, as the object of desire moves all things by being loved. His God is also totally depersonalized which makes it unjustified to put a capital letter when translating the Metaphysics, or any other of Stagirites' writings, since in his theology there is no room for the Incarnation and real religious feelings. Eventually, Aristotle's definition of God as the thinking of thinking is only a consequently logical operation which results from the act of placing the thinking on the pedestal of all.

Key words: God, Unmoved Mover, theology, teleology, actuality, thinking of thinking.