The Discovery of chreia. Galen’s Method of Teleological Demonstration and Its Aristotelian Background
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Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1163/15733823-20240097" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1163/15733823-20240097</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15733823-20240097" target="_blank" >10.1163/15733823-20240097</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Discovery of chreia. Galen’s Method of Teleological Demonstration and Its Aristotelian Background
Original language description
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.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
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/GA23-05178S" target="_blank" >GA23-05178S: Credible medicine: Galen's method of inquiry and proof</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Early Science and Medicine
ISSN
1383-7427
e-ISSN
1573-3823
Volume of the periodical
29
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
29
Pages from-to
121-149
UT code for WoS article
001247256600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85194469324