2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Aristotelian Concept of Physical Body and Change
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24820007
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Philosophy/Ethics
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-08-31 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | 哲学 / 科学史 / ギリシア哲学 / 西洋古典学 / アリストテレス / ソクラテス以前 / 物体 / 運動 |
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| Research Abstract |
This research confirmed that Aristotelian concepts of physical body do not consist only of his unique doctrines, namely, four elements theory or hylomorphism, but of other doctrines such as that "there is no two more bodies in the same place" or "any physical bodies are basically dividable". Importantly, these doctrines are the ones which presocratic natural philosophers share. This fact may suggest that the history of Greek natural philosophy is waved by discovering conceptual problems on the divisibility of physical bodies, and submitting solutions for these problems. These problems are, generally stated, a) what is/are the principle(s) which always remains after dividing any physical body, b) what characteristic the principle(s) have, c) what is the system which generates any physical body from the principle(s), d) how physical bodies has its essential properties, such as heat and color.
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