Aristoteles über die Psyche als Prinzip und Ursache des Lebens
| dc.contributor.author | Meyer, Martin F. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-03-14T11:56:29Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-03-14T11:56:29Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Biology is the most extensive field in the Corpus Aristotelicum. In his fundamental work De anima, Aristotle tries to fix the borders of this life science. The term ψυχή has a twofold explanatory status. On the one hand, ψυχή is understood as a principle of all living beings. On the other hand, it is understood as a cause of the fact that all living beings are alive. The paper is divided into three sections. (1) The first part shows why Aristotle discusses these issues in a work entitled Περὶ ψυχῆς. Since Pythagoras and Heraclitus, ψυχή was understood as a life principle: Pythagoras believed that men, animals and plants share the same nature: they are all ἔμψυχα and they are homogenous qua ψυχή. (2) The second part of this article deals with Aristotle’s definition of the soul in DA II: ψυχή is the principle of all living things. This establishes (i) the external criteria to divide living and non-living beings and (ii) the internal criteria to divide living beings. (3) The third part of this paper is concerned with the methodological consequences of this definition: the life functions (δυνάμεις τῆς ψυχῆς) are the central explanandum in Aristotle’s biology. De anima II defines such various life-functions as nourishment, sense-perception and locomotion. These capacities contour the main fields of the philosopher’s biological investigation. For Aristotle, the faculty of reproduction is a subtype of nourishment. Reproduction is the most important and most natural function of all living beings. Genetics is, therefore, the most important field in Aristotle’s biology. | pl_PL |
| dc.identifier.citation | Peitho. Examina Antiqua, nr 1(3), 2012, s. 115-142. | pl_PL |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2082–7539 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10593/5302 | |
| dc.language.iso | de | pl_PL |
| dc.publisher | Wydawnictwo Naukowe Instytutu Filozofii UAM | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | biology | pl_PL |
| dc.subject | Psychē | pl_PL |
| dc.title | Aristoteles über die Psyche als Prinzip und Ursache des Lebens | pl_PL |
| dc.type | Artykuł | pl_PL |