The Historiography of Philosophy in Classical Athens

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370009
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Philosophy/Ethics
• Research Institution: Chiba University
• Principal Investigator: IZUMI CHIYE 千葉大学, 人文社会科学研究科(系), 教授 (70301091)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: ギリシア哲学 / 古典文献学 / 哲学史編纂 / ペリパトス学派 / タレス / 哲学原論・各論 / アテナイ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study explores how the historiography of philosophy might have appeared and transformed in classical Athens. The peripatetic historiography of philosophy needs to be reassessed seriously; but the more useful clues seem to be obtained from other classical texts including Herodotus, Thucydides, Euripides, Demosthenes, Isocrates and Plato. These texts provide a number of evidence which seems to contradict the peripatetic view that the philosophy might have been originated from Thales of Miletus. The range of historiography of cultural roots observed in those texts might be suggest the particularity of the peripatetic view of philosophy and also the balance of power between classical Athens and Macedonia.

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古代ギリシア哲学・科学思想史