FOCAL DEPENDENCE, LOGICAL PRIORITY AND THE UNITY OF ARISTOTLE’S METAPHYSICS

IF 0.2 4区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY
Gastón Robert
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ABSTRACT A long-standing problem in Aristotelian scholarship concerns the question of how to reconcile Aristotle’s twofold description of metaphysics as ontology (the universal science of being qua being) and theology (the science of the changeless and separate substance). An important attempt to answer this question (advanced first by G. Patzig) consists in saying that the changeless and separate substance is focally prior to (or the focal meaning of) substance and therefore to being in general (since substance is focally prior to being in general). This article aims to refute this kind of approach to the problem of the unity of Aristotle’s metaphysics by arguing that (i) relations of focal meaning entail the logical (definitional) priority of the prior items over the dependent items standing in such relations; (ii) the changeless and separate substance is not logically prior to the other types of substances distinguished by Aristotle; and, therefore, (iii) the changeless and separate substance is not focally prior to (the focal meaning of) substance.
焦点依赖、逻辑优先与亚里士多德形而上学的统一性
亚里士多德学术研究中一个长期存在的问题是如何调和亚里士多德对形而上学的双重描述,即本体论(关于存在的普遍科学)和神学(关于不变和分离的物质的科学)。回答这个问题的一个重要尝试(由G. Patzig首先提出)在于说,不变的和独立的实体是优先于实体(或其重点意义)的,因此是优先于一般存在的(因为实体是优先于一般存在的)。本文旨在驳斥这种处理亚里士多德形而上学统一性问题的方法,论证如下:(1)焦点意义的关系使得处于这种关系中的在先项目比从属项目具有逻辑(定义)优先权;(ii)不变和独立的实体在逻辑上并不先于亚里士多德所区分的其他类型的实体;因此,(iii)不变的和分离的实体不是先于实体的(焦点意义)。
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