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Study on the Significance of the Myth in the Development of the Presocratic Philosophy

Research Project

Project/Area Number 14510008
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Philosophy
Research InstitutionKANAZAWA UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

MIURA Kaname  KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF LETTERS, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, 文学部, 助教授 (20222317)

Project Period (FY) 2002 – 2003
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2003)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
KeywordsPresocratics / myth / Greek philosophy / mythos / logos / パルメニデス / デモクリトス / ヘシオドス / 神的なものと人間 / 初期ギリシア思想家
Research Abstract

In general, it is said that the Presocratic philosophers evidently abandoned mythic formulations and gave a purely rational, logical and scientific account of the origin and nature of the universe. This estimation is the result of the application of the hypothesis to the field of Greek philosophy that the civilization of ancient Greece underwent a development from myth to reason or from Mythos to Logos. However the state of affairs is not so simple. It is true that the Presocratic philosophers threw out personification and anthropomorphic theistic explanation, but, when we seek the origin of philosophy not historically but a-historically or ontologically, even in the epic of Gilgamesh, we can find fully philosophical themes, e.g.the status of the mortals in the universe, the nature and possibility of their knowledge of the universe. On the other hand, the so-called first philosophers such as Parmenides and Empedocles also still employed the mytho-poetic forms of explanation. The mythic elements are thus often seen to play an important role in the very formulation of their thoughts, the arche(principle) they posit as an origin and a cause of the universe is far beyond our experience, but they try to assent it and to describe it in some way or other. And it is the mythic expression that enables them to represent it explicitly. The first philosophers are called physikoi by Aristotle, but, as long as they are natural theologians, they believe, it seems, that they can reconcile Mythos and Logos in a certain way.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2003 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2002 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (6 results)

All Other

All Publications (6 results)

  • [Publications] 三浦 要: "パルメニデスは一元論者か?"古代哲学研究. 35. 1-17 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] (翻訳者)三浦 要: "プルタルコス著、モラリア11"京都大学学術出版会. 257+9 (2004)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] MIURA Kaname: "Is Parmenides monist?"Methodos. Vol.135. 1-17 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] MIURA Kaname(tr.): "Plutarch, Moralia 11"Kyoto University Press. 257+9 (2004)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 三浦 要(訳者): "(翻訳)プルタルコス モラリア11"京都大学学術出版会(予定). 235 (2004)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 三浦 要: "パルメニデスは一元論者か?"古代哲学研究. 35号(発表予定). (2003)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2002-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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