Amicus Plato, magis amica veritas. La función del examen crítico de las doctrinas precedentes en la constitución de la filosofía aristotélica.

DI CAMILLO, SILVANA

CLASSICA

SOCIEDADE BRASILEIRA DE ESTUDOS CLÁSSICOS

Lugar: BELO HORIZONTE; Año: 2010

2176-6436

Against the charge that Aristotle’s account of his predecessors is distorted by interpreting them in the light of his own philosophical doctrines, we attempt to show that Aristotle’s use of ancient views is double: on the one hand, he starts from them to identify the difficulties and to incorporate the truth that they might contain; on the other hand, he returns on them, with new conceptual tools, to judge their strengths and weaknesses. It is this second move that has earned him the criticism of deformation of preceding doctrines. Our proposal is that the imposition of own concepts must not be read as distortion, but as an exhibition of his particular solution to the problems unsolved by earlier philosophers, and that the review of his predecessors, and in particular of his teacher’s doctrines, is of fundamental importance in the constitution itself of Aristotelian philosophy.