Art and Nature in Aristotle’s Physics: Some Antecedents in Early Greek Medicine
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RIV/67985955:_____/24:00598097
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004703544_006" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004703544_006</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004703544_006" target="_blank" >10.1163/9789004703544_006</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Art and Nature in Aristotle’s Physics: Some Antecedents in Early Greek Medicine
Original language description
This article focuses on Aristotle’s use of the phrase “art imitates nature”. It challenges Jaeger’s teleological interpretation of the phrase and defends the claim that for Aristotle it does not express a novel belief about teleology, but a belief common to Aristotle and his predecessors about how artistic methods of production were first discovered and how technai progress. The article traces the history of this belief from early Greek medical writings through Democritus and Plato to Aristotle. It shows that by looking at how early Greek medical and philosophical writers understood discovery and progress in the arts, we can better understand Aristotle’s expectations for a scientific investigation into nature and what motivated the method of inquiry he claims the natural scientist should adopt. One advantage of this approach is that it accounts for resemblances among Aristotle’s claim and similar ones in other writers from Democritus to Dante.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GM21-30494M" target="_blank" >GM21-30494M: Alchemies of Scent. Reconstructing the Practices of Ancient Greco-Egyptian Perfumery: An Experimental Approach to the History of Science</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Aristotle Reads Hippocrates
ISBN
978-90-04-70353-7
Number of pages of the result
43
Pages from-to
126-168
Number of pages of the book
434
Publisher name
Brill
Place of publication
Leiden
UT code for WoS chapter
001391351700005