2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
ousia and substance: a study of the formation of the basic ontological concepts
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26370015
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Philosophy/Ethics
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | ウーシアー / 実体 / アリストテレス / 存在論 / ストア派 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The Japanese word “jittai", which means “real thing" or “real body", was introduced as a rendering of the English word “substance", but is now widely used as a standard translation of the Aristotelian term “ousia" in Japan. In this project, by examining Aristotle's use of that term and other related concepts such as “ti esti", “tode ti" and “hypokeimenon", I demonstrate that the primary meaning of “ousia" is not substance or "jittai" (real thing) but (an entity) which is what it is. This shows that Aristotle basically accepts the Platonic understanding of this term.
Furthermore, I also investigate how the Stoics transformed the meaning of the term and show that this transformation made it possible to translate “ousia" into the Latin word “substantia", even though "substantia" is etymologically equivalent to the Greek “hypostasis".
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| Free Research Field |
西洋古代哲学
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