The Discovery of chreia: Galen’s Method of Teleological Demonstration and Its Aristotelian Background

IF 0.5 2区 哲学 Q3 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Matyáš Havrda
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Abstract

The paper explores Galen’s notion of the chreia of bodily parts and activities, and the method of its discovery against the Aristotelian background. It argues that the chreia of an object π (a bodily part or activity) is a connection between the activity ε for the sake of which π has come into existence, and the attributes of π without which ε would cease to exist or would not be as good. The discovery of chreia, then, is an explanation of this connection. Aristotle does not use the word ‘chreia’ in this sense, but in Parts of Animals he employs a partly overlapping notion which he calls ‘ergon’. Finally, the paper points out that Galen’s chreia is equivalent to the middle term of teleological demonstrations, as outlined in Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics II 11.

chreia的发现:盖伦的目的论证明方法及其亚里士多德背景
本文以亚里士多德为背景,探讨了盖伦关于身体部位和活动的 "chreia "概念及其发现方法。本文认为,物体π(身体部位或活动)的 "chreia "是π为之而存在的活动ε与π的属性之间的联系,如果没有π的属性,ε将不复存在或变得不那么好。那么,"chreia "的发现就是对这种联系的解释。亚里士多德没有在这个意义上使用 "chreia "一词,但在《动物的一部分》中,他使用了一个部分重叠的概念,称之为 "ergon"。最后,本文指出,盖伦的 "chreia "等同于亚里士多德《后分析 II 11》中概述的目的论论证的中间项。
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Early Science and Medicine
Early Science and Medicine HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE-
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22
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>12 weeks
期刊介绍: Early Science and Medicine (ESM) is a peer-reviewed international journal dedicated to the history of science, medicine and technology from the earliest times through to the end of the eighteenth century. The need to treat in a single journal all aspects of scientific activity and thought to the eighteenth century is due to two factors: to the continued importance of ancient sources throughout the Middle Ages and the early modern period, and to the comparably low degree of specialization and the high degree of disciplinary interdependence characterizing the period before the professionalization of science.
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