Aristotle and Us
Some Observations on His Philosophical Language
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4922826 |
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| Authors | Vrasidas Karalis (The University of Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 36-51 |
| Publication date | 2008-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Thesis Eleven (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0725513607088198 |
| OpenAlex | W2059224412 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
The study discusses Aristotle's special use of Greek language as a historical construct defined by the need to accommodate the communicative needs of an expanding world ( morphoplastic synapses). It addresses the paradoxical synthesis of Platonic idealism and empirical cognition which is expressed in his philosophical language and detects a deep incommensurability in their structural form. It argues that such conflict of paradigms in the work of Aristotle neutralized the interpretive potential of Greek language which focused on commentaries over a long period of time. Aristotle's thinking became important in Thomas Aquinas' philosophical summa by establishing a creative synthesis through the potentialities of Latin. The semantic neutralization of Greek continued until the 20th century when Cornelius Castoriadis proposed a new Aristotelian synthesis by re-interpreting his principle of imagination within a modern understanding of creativity
Aesthetics · Ancient Greek · Creativity · Epistemology · Greek language · Idealism · Linguistics · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Computer Science · Philosophy · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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