In Book Twelve, Aristotle writes:
“In this way, however, is the Deity disposed to existence,
and the principle of life is, at any rate, inherent in the Deity; for the
energy or active exercise of Mind constitutes life, and God—as above delineated—constitutes
this energy; and essential energy belongs to God as his best and everlasting life.
Now, our statement is this,--that the Deity is an animal that is everlasting and
most excellent in nature; so that with the Deity life and duration is
uninterrupted and eternal; for this constitutes the very essence of God.”
This doesn't sound like a description of Zeus; it has more the feel of Spinoza than it does the Greek pantheon, or for that matter, scholasticism.
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