Il nostro metodo consueto
Subtitle: parte e tutto in Aristotele : dal continuo alle forme degli animali
By: Enrico Rini
Series: Temi metafisici e problemi del pensiero antico -- 139; Pubblicazioni del Centro di ricerche di metafisica -- 139.
Publisher: VP, Vita e pensiero
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Milano
Language: ita
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9788834328842
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Whole and parts (Philosophy); Teil; Ganzheit; Einheit; Vielfalt
Description: "Our usual method" is an expression that Aristotle uses in a passage of the Politics (I.1, 1252a17-20) to describe the technique of subdividing a composite object of study into the elements that make it up, in order to study the possible combinations. What theory is the basis for this method? Is it really a usual method for Aristotle? Enrico Rini responds to these questions, starting with the analysis of some passages of the Aristotelian corpus that refer to concepts of the part and the whole. From these passages, Rini attempts to extrapolate a theory that Aristotle states explicitly only on occasion. The mereology that emerges from this study is not a formal theory, unlike the logical mereology present today, and therefore takes into account different types of the whole and the part, with a scope that has applications for the field of biology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-242).
Table of contents: title: I molti significati di parte e tutto; title: Le parti del mobile; title: Le parti del genere; title: Le parti della cosa; title: Le parti del vivente; title: Conclusione.