Abstract
According to Aristotle, final causes deserve great attention not only in the realm of
human action but most fundamentally in the whole realm of nature, as generally concerned
with objects submitted to change. Robert Spaemann grew attentive to this
core problem of Aristotelian ontology studying some prominent examples of modern
ethics in which the scope of final causes has been reduced to the bare maintenance of
survival conditions. Both nature and final causes exhibit in the Aristotelian reflection
a much broader specter of meaning, which is documented not only in the neologism
which Aristotle created to express this multiplicity, but also in ordinary language
occurrences of the adjective “natural” in opposition-couples such as “natural-
conventional”, etc. Starting with a reconstruction of Spaemann’s discovery of
the problem of “inversed teleology” as a mark of Modernity, the article focuses on his
recover of the intrinsic polysemy of the concepts of nature and final causes documented both in Aristotle's work and in ordinary language.
Titolo tradotto del contributo | [Autom. eng. transl.] Physis and its antonyms. Ideas for a rediscovery of the Aristotelian concept of nature in Robert Spaemann |
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Lingua originale | Italian |
pagine (da-a) | 348-368 |
Numero di pagine | 21 |
Rivista | STUDIUM |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2019 |
Keywords
- Aristotele, fisica, ontologia, teleologia, R. Spaemann
- Aristotle, physics, ontology, teleology, R. Spaemann