A DIVINDADE NA FILOSOFIA ARISTOTÉLICA, PLATÔNICA E NEOPLATÔNICA

Semelhanças, diferenças e algumas considerações sobre sua herança à Filosofia Cristã.

Abstract

This article aims to make a brief comparison between the concepts of God in  Aristotelian and Platonic/Neoplatonic philosophy through the review of texts by Aristotle, Plato and Plotinus. With this, the aim is to understand why the Platonic/Neoplatonic notion of divinity came to be more accepted by Christianity than the Aristotelian one, even in historical periods in which Aristotle's work was more easily accessible to Christian thinkers. It is concluded that the vision of a non-creator God, only the final cause of the world and not, and closed in on himself, did not harmonize with the Mosaic tradition brought as the basis of Christianity. Platonism and Neoplatonism, in turn, brought an understanding of perfection as requiring an action outside itself, the idea of creating the world by Forms and the concept of Unity as the fundamental basis of all existence, ideas that seemed to dialogue more easily with Christian scriptures.