Praktische Syllogismen bei Aristoteles
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Klaus Corcilius
Abstract
This paper discusses Aristotle's notion of the practical syllogism. It is argued that the notion of ‘practical’ reasoning in the sense of reasoning which implies motion in one sense or the other is alien to Aristotle's philosophy of nature. All (at least in type) the relevant passages will be discussed. The outcome is that there are three different contexts in which it would be justified to speak of practical syllogisms: (i) human deliberation, (ii) the illustration of the triggering cause of animal motion, and (iii) the teleological ex post explanationof human action. (i) is genuine, but non-deductive reasoning which does not immediately result in action/motion, whereas (ii) is not genuine reasoning, but an analogy with deductive reasoning. Finally, the relation between (i) and (ii) in Aristotle's theory of animal motion will be discussed.
© Walter de Gruyter 2008
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Articles in the same Issue
- Praktische Syllogismen bei Aristoteles
- The Free Play of the Faculties and the Status of Natural Beauty in Kant's Theory of Taste
- ‘An Almost Single Inference’ – Kant's Deduction of the Categories Reconsidered
- Rezensionen
- Liste eingesandter Bücher
- Anschriften der Mitarbeiter des dritten Heftes
