多様性の中の秩序：アリストテレス哲学の同名性 Order in Multiplicity : Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle (Oxford Aristotle Studies Series)

Shields, Christopher

Oxford University Press（2002/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 304 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780199253074
• DDC分類 185

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1999. Presents the first full study of a key feature of Aristotle's philosophical and scientific investigations.

Full Description

Aristotle attaches particular significance to the homonymy of many central concepts in philosophy and science: that is, to the diversity of ways of being common to a single general concept. His preoccupation with homonymy influences his approach to almost every subject that he considers, and it clearly structures the philosophical methodology that he employs both when criticizing others and when advancing his own positive theories. Where there is homonymy there is multiplicity: Aristotle aims to find the order within this multiplicity, and believes that doing so is crucial to scientific inquiry and philosophical progress.
Christopher Shields investigates and evaluates Aristotle's approach to questions about homonymy, characterizing the metaphysical and semantic commitments necessary to establish the homonymy of a given concept. Then, in a series of case-studies, Shields examines in detail some of Aristotle's principal applications of homonymy--to the body, sameness and oneness, life, goodness, and being. Shields's aim is not only to give a fuller understanding of Aristotle's methodology and to illuminate his specific doctrines in a variety of areas, but to show that this methodology remains fruitful today.

Contents

PART I: HOMONYMY AS SUCH ; PART II: HOMONYMY AT WORK