Movens Immobile e ‘O Deus’ no Livro a da Metafísica de Aristóteles
Book Lambda of the Metaphysics by Aristotle presents us a mysterious expression: τὁ κινοὒν άκίνητον, which most of the translators render as the Unmoved Mover. Our aim is to prove that that translation is false, because it is not aware, in our view, of the difference established by Aristotle between “the god” and this movens immobile. Therefore, based on excerpts of Metaphysics Book Lambda we try to set light upon two different styles (grammatically, syntactically speaking, etc.) used by Aristotle: one when referring to an abstract principle (the so called “unmoved mover”), a physical explanation for the movement, and another when talking about “the god”. In the last case it is possible to experience a somehow passionate description, almost an expression of faith which compared to that “ cold” movens immobilis, makes us wonder if, as tradition suggests without questioning, “the god” and movens immobilis are for the philosopher the same being.