PARMENIDES' POEM AND THE DIFFICULTIES OF CAUSAL SCHEMATISM
<p>In this paper the author analyzes challenges for the Aristotles’ doctrine of the causes that were triggered by the attempts to fit Eleatic philosophers into his framework. Negation of movement and change, apsolutization of the one without allowing the plurality, should have prevented any me...
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| author | Željko Lj. Kaluđerović Lj. Kaluđerović |
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| description | <p>In this paper the author analyzes challenges for the Aristotles’ doctrine of the causes that were triggered by the attempts to fit Eleatic philosophers into his framework. Negation of movement and change, apsolutization of the one without allowing the plurality, should have prevented any mentioning of the causes in the doctrines of Xenophanes, Parmenides, Zeno and Melissus. Nevertheless, there were some attempts in that direction as early as in interpreting of Xenophanes’ opinions, only to gain in intensity with the Parmenides’ poem <em>On Nature</em>. The comentators clearly saw in Aristotles’ views of Parmenides’ one traces of the formal cause, in contrast to the Melissus’ one which would correspond to the material cause. However, according to the author, this insight is less important than the Stagirites’ assumption of the authenticity of the second part of Parmenides’ poem. Not only that the "Way of Seeming" may be understood as the "best explanation" of phenomena, but only when some kind of "organization of the world" is mentioned, we can look for the causes. By recognizing in the "Way of Seeming" implications of his material and efficient causes, Aristotle made the methapysical chain linking Presocratics unbroken, i.e. made his causal schematism through cosmology of the most popular Eleatics link as "naturally" as possible the systems of Pre-Parmenides thinkers with the systems of Post-Parmenides philosophers.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-99a7290588b74f558b907029be3dc3782022-12-21T23:47:12ZdeuFaculty of Philosophy Novi Sad, Department of HistoryИстраживања0374-07300350-21122012-12-013737-I359372200PARMENIDES' POEM AND THE DIFFICULTIES OF CAUSAL SCHEMATISMŽeljko Lj. Kaluđerović Lj. Kaluđerović0Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Novom Sadu<p>In this paper the author analyzes challenges for the Aristotles’ doctrine of the causes that were triggered by the attempts to fit Eleatic philosophers into his framework. Negation of movement and change, apsolutization of the one without allowing the plurality, should have prevented any mentioning of the causes in the doctrines of Xenophanes, Parmenides, Zeno and Melissus. Nevertheless, there were some attempts in that direction as early as in interpreting of Xenophanes’ opinions, only to gain in intensity with the Parmenides’ poem <em>On Nature</em>. The comentators clearly saw in Aristotles’ views of Parmenides’ one traces of the formal cause, in contrast to the Melissus’ one which would correspond to the material cause. However, according to the author, this insight is less important than the Stagirites’ assumption of the authenticity of the second part of Parmenides’ poem. Not only that the "Way of Seeming" may be understood as the "best explanation" of phenomena, but only when some kind of "organization of the world" is mentioned, we can look for the causes. By recognizing in the "Way of Seeming" implications of his material and efficient causes, Aristotle made the methapysical chain linking Presocratics unbroken, i.e. made his causal schematism through cosmology of the most popular Eleatics link as "naturally" as possible the systems of Pre-Parmenides thinkers with the systems of Post-Parmenides philosophers.</p>http://epub.ff.uns.ac.rs/index.php/gff/article/view/205elejci, Parmenid, jedno, mnoštvo, kretanje, promena, uzroci, formalni, materijalni, eficijentni |
| spellingShingle | Željko Lj. Kaluđerović Lj. Kaluđerović PARMENIDES' POEM AND THE DIFFICULTIES OF CAUSAL SCHEMATISM Истраживања elejci, Parmenid, jedno, mnoštvo, kretanje, promena, uzroci, formalni, materijalni, eficijentni |
| title | PARMENIDES' POEM AND THE DIFFICULTIES OF CAUSAL SCHEMATISM |
| title_full | PARMENIDES' POEM AND THE DIFFICULTIES OF CAUSAL SCHEMATISM |
| title_fullStr | PARMENIDES' POEM AND THE DIFFICULTIES OF CAUSAL SCHEMATISM |
| title_full_unstemmed | PARMENIDES' POEM AND THE DIFFICULTIES OF CAUSAL SCHEMATISM |
| title_short | PARMENIDES' POEM AND THE DIFFICULTIES OF CAUSAL SCHEMATISM |
| title_sort | parmenides poem and the difficulties of causal schematism |
| topic | elejci, Parmenid, jedno, mnoštvo, kretanje, promena, uzroci, formalni, materijalni, eficijentni |
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