On φύσις. What did the Greeks understand by φυσικός?

n 21 (September, 2017) • Archai: As Origens do Pensamento Ocidental

Autor: Alberto Bernabe

Resumo:

The uses of ??????? from its former occurrences until the III BC. are examined. After an analysis of the first instances of the term, its uses may be classified into two large groups. In the former, ??????? can be understood as “natural” or “innate” and various sections can be identified: a) applied to objects or beings, as opposed to ‘artificial’, b) to refer to “natural structures”, c) to qualify properties in the ‘inherent’ sense, d) to attribute to productions and effects of natural activity, in the sense that nature is an active and conscious principle, e) to define capacities, abilities or instincts as opposites to ‘learned’,  f) to distinguish activities, behaviours and relationships which they are the result of the customs, g) to apply to laws and justice, as opposed to ‘conventional’, h) with the idea of ‘appropriate’, ‘characteristic’ and (i) opposed to ‘psychic’. The second group includes the uses in which ??????? is understood as ‘referring to nature as object of study’.

 

ISSN: 1984-249X

DOI: DOI: https://doi.org/10.14195/1984 -249X_21_2

Texto Completo: http://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/archai/article/view/26359/19006

Palavras-Chave: Philosophical vocabulary,Greek philosophy,phy

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