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Aristotle's Conception of Body (Physikon Soma) in De Anima B1

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2005-07-17

The Philosophical Society of Hokkaido University

Annals of the Philosophical Society of Hokkaido University

41

21-42

In De Anima B1, Aristotle characterizes body as potentiality, but then he maintains 'homonymy principle,' which means that body is as such only when it is actually living. In this paper, through considering this aporia, I showed the following. i) Potentiality in this context means possibility of continued existence of organism, so it consists with body's actual living. ii) He has two contrasting perspectives about body. According to his thought, body is purely physical, mean while it is virtually identical with soul. iii) These two perspectives being connected, his conception of body is situated at a kind of materialistic line.

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0287-2560

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