{"_index":"sire","_type":"_doc","_id":"858","_score":null,"_source":{"id":858,"authors_free":[{"id":1262,"entry_id":858,"agent_type":null,"is_normalised":null,"person_id":303,"institution_id":null,"role":{"id":1,"role_name":"author"},"free_name":"Rist, John M.","free_first_name":"John M.","free_last_name":"Rist","norm_person":{"id":303,"first_name":"John M.","last_name":"Rist","full_name":"Rist, John M.","short_ident":"","is_classical_name":null,"dnb_url":"http:\/\/d-nb.info\/gnd\/137060440","viaf_url":"","db_url":"","from_claudius":null}}],"entry_title":"The End of Aristotle's on Prayer","main_title":{"title":"The End of Aristotle's on Prayer"},"abstract":"Jean Pepin recently devoted a lengthy study to Aristotle's On \r\nPrayer;' there is good reason to think that the work never existed. On \r\nPrayer is listed in Diogenes Laertius' catalogue of Aristotle's writings (5.22) and in the Vita Hesychii.2 The only other evidence for its exis- \r\ntence is a passage of Simplicius3 that tells us that at the end of On Prayer Aristotle says clearly that God is either mind or somehow beyond mind \r\n(6 Esoq ii voUq EaTiV Ti CrenCKEva TOU voU). The claim that God is be- \r\nyond mind is unique in an unemended Aristotelian text, but the notion \r\nwould be acceptable to Simplicius both because, as a Neoplatonist, he \r\nwould believe it to be true, and because as a Neoplatonic commentator \r\non Aristotle he would be happy to find evidence of the basic philosophi- cal harmony of Aristotle and Plato. Our problem, therefore, is to see \r\nwhy Simplicius thought that Aristotle held this view... [pp. 110 f.]","btype":3,"date":"1985","language":"English","online_url":"","online_resources":"https:\/\/uni-koeln.sciebo.de\/s\/6lThLMu5Mp64X1o","doi_url":null,"categories":[],"authors":[{"id":303,"full_name":"Rist, John M.","role":{"id":1,"role_name":"author"}}],"book":null,"booksection":null,"article":{"id":858,"journal_id":null,"journal_name":"The American Journal of Philology","volume":"106","issue":"1","pages":"110-113"}},"sort":["The End of Aristotle's on Prayer"]}