Comprehensive Research on Technical Philosophy: A Life-Based View of Nature

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370013
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Philosophy/Ethics
• Research Institution: Nagoya Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: SEGUCHI MASAHISA 名古屋工業大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 教授 (40262943)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: プラトン / アリストテレス / ピュシス / テクネー / 技術 / 生命 / プシューケー / ソーマ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In Plato’s view of nature, the soul(psyche) that is in self-moving motion exists prior to the disorderly motion of matter(soma). The soul is older than and exists prior to matter. In Timaeus, this soul is the first principle and matter is a secondary cause. In Sophist, Philebus, and Laws, a materialistic mechanism that regards matter as the first principle is clearly rejected. Plato viewed the soul as the first principle of the natural world. He advocated a fundamental shift away from a common-sense view of nature, stating that not matter but the intellect-equipped soul is the first principle of the natural world.

Free Research Field

哲学・倫理学