Anaxagorae Homoeomeria
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David Torrijos-Castrillejo
Abstract
Aristotle introduced in the history of the reception of Anaxagoras the term “homoiomerous”. This word refers to substances whose parts are similar to each other and to the whole. Although Aristotle’s explanations can be puzzling, the term “homoiomerous” may explain an authentic aspect of Anaxagoras’ doctrine reflected in the fragments of his work. Perhaps one should find a specific meaning for the term “homoiomerous” in Anaxagoras, somewhat different from the one present in Aristotle. This requires a review of the sense of the two terms involved in it: “homoios” and “moira”. In other words, the following questions should be answered: what realities are named parts and to what whole do they belong? On the other hand, which similarity do they have to each another and to the whole? The author concludes that the parts are “all things”, which resemble each other and the universe as a whole because, according to Anaxagoras, they are all composed of all things.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- SOMMARIO
- STUDI E SAGGI
- Partecipazione, mescolanza, separazione: Platone e l’immanentismo
- Knowing by Doing: The Role of Geometrical Practice in Aristotle’s Theory of Knowledge
- Pyrrhonian Relativism
- Der politikos aner als pantos oneirokritikos bei Philon von Alexandria. Prolegomena zu einer interpretation der Schrift De Iosepho
- DISCUSSIONI, NOTE E RASSEGNE
- Anaxagorae Homoeomeria
- Die Ursprünge des spätantiken philosophischen Curriculums im kaiserzeitlichen Aristotelismus
- RECENSIONI BIBLIOGRAFICHE
- U. Dietsche, Strategie und Philosophie bei Seneca. Untersuchungen zur therapeutischen Technik in den Epistulae morales
- A. Corti, L’Adversus Colotem di Plutarco. Storia di una polemica filosofica
- C.S. O’Brien, The Demiurge in Ancient Thought. Secondary Gods and Divine Mediators
- F. Jourdan-R. Hirsch-Luipold (Hrsgg.), Die Wurzel allen Übels. Vorstellungen über die Herkunft des Bösen und Schlechten in der Philosophie und Religion des 1.-4. Jahrhunderts
- Anonimo. Prolegomeni alla filosofia di Platone, a cura di A. Motta
- CRITERI REDAZIONALI DELLA RIVISTA
- ELENCHOS
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- SOMMARIO
- STUDI E SAGGI
- Partecipazione, mescolanza, separazione: Platone e l’immanentismo
- Knowing by Doing: The Role of Geometrical Practice in Aristotle’s Theory of Knowledge
- Pyrrhonian Relativism
- Der politikos aner als pantos oneirokritikos bei Philon von Alexandria. Prolegomena zu einer interpretation der Schrift De Iosepho
- DISCUSSIONI, NOTE E RASSEGNE
- Anaxagorae Homoeomeria
- Die Ursprünge des spätantiken philosophischen Curriculums im kaiserzeitlichen Aristotelismus
- RECENSIONI BIBLIOGRAFICHE
- U. Dietsche, Strategie und Philosophie bei Seneca. Untersuchungen zur therapeutischen Technik in den Epistulae morales
- A. Corti, L’Adversus Colotem di Plutarco. Storia di una polemica filosofica
- C.S. O’Brien, The Demiurge in Ancient Thought. Secondary Gods and Divine Mediators
- F. Jourdan-R. Hirsch-Luipold (Hrsgg.), Die Wurzel allen Übels. Vorstellungen über die Herkunft des Bösen und Schlechten in der Philosophie und Religion des 1.-4. Jahrhunderts
- Anonimo. Prolegomeni alla filosofia di Platone, a cura di A. Motta
- CRITERI REDAZIONALI DELLA RIVISTA
- ELENCHOS
