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IWATA, Keiichi
 
Affiliation
Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Job title
Professor
Degree
Ph. D. ( The University of Tokyo )

Research Experience

  • 2014.04
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    Now

    Waseda University   Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences   Professor

  • 2018.10
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    2020.01

    The University of Oxford,   The Faculty of Philosophy,   Academic Visitor

  • 2013.04
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    2014.03

    Waseda University   Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences   Associate Professor

  • 2008.04
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    2013.03

    Kyushu University   Faculty of Humanities   Associate Professor

  • 2004.04
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    2008.03

    Rissho University   Faculty of Letters   Lecturer

Education Background

  • 1998.04
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    2001.10

    東京大学大学院   人文社会系研究科   基礎文化研究専攻哲学専門分野  

  • 1996.04
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    1998.03

    Waseda University   Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences  

  • 1992.04
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    1996.03

    Waseda University   School of Letters, Arts and Sciences I  

Committee Memberships

  • 2021.06
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    2023.05

    The Philosophical Association of Japan  事務局長・理事

Professional Memberships

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    早稲田大学哲学会

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    ギリシャ哲学セミナー

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    九州大学哲学会

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    立正大学哲学会

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    哲学会

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    西日本哲学会

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    中世哲学会

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    日本西洋古典学会

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    日本哲学会

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Research Areas

  • Philosophy and ethics

Research Interests

  • Ancient Greek Philosophy

  • Aristotle

  • Metaphysics

  • The Theory of Substance

  • Being

  • Essence

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Awards

  • 西日本哲学会第2回若手奨励賞

    2010  

 

Papers

  • Aristotle’s Accounts of Change and his Understanding of Ousia: Categories 5, 4a10–b18 and Physics V 1

    Keiichi Iwata

    Bulletin of the Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences of Waseda University   ( 69 ) 13 - 24  2024.03

  • Numerical Oneness in Aristotle

    Keiichi Iwata

    Bulletin of the Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences of Waseda University   ( 68 ) 11 - 22,  2023.03

  • The Priority of Ousia in Aristotle

    Keiichi Iwata

    The Proceedings of Seminar on Greek Philosophy   ( 19 ) 31 - 48,  2023.03

  • The Notions of Actuality and Potentiality in Aristotle’s Metaphysics Λ 5

    Keiichi Iwata

    Bulletin of the Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences of Waseda University   ( 67 ) 11 - 22,  2022.03

  • Aristotle on the division of all being into categorial beings

    Keiichi Iwata

    Philosophia, Waseda University Philosophical Society   ( 108 ) 1 - 22,  2021.02

  • Subjecthood and Definability in Aristotle’s Investigation of Substance

    Keiichi Iwata

    in Patricia Hanna (ed.), An Anthology of Philosophical Studies, vol. 14 (ISBN: 978-960-598-355-0), Athens: Athens Institute for Education and Research,     75 - 84,  2020.07  [Refereed]

  • Particular Substances in the Early Chapters of Metaphysics Z

    IWATA Keiichi

    Tetsugaku-sekai (World of Philosophy)   ( 40 ) 1 - 13,  2018.02

  • The Energeia of Intellect: Aristotle’s Theory of Intellect and the Concept of Separate Form (in Japanese)

    IWATA Keiichi

    Bulletin of the Graduate Division of Letters, Arts and Sciences of Waseda University   ( 62 ) 11 - 25,  2017.03

  • Self-Knowledge and Ethical Knowledge in Plato’s Charmides (in Japanese)

    IWATA Keiichi

    Tetsugaku-sekai (World of Philosophy)   ( 38 ) 1 - 17,  2016.02

    CiNii

  • The Possibility of Self-awareness in Aristotle’s Theory of Soul (in Japanese)

    IWATA Keiichi

    Tetsugaku-Ronbunshu, The Kyushu-Daigaku Tetsugakukai   50 ( 50 ) 103 - 121,  2014.12  [Refereed]

    DOI CiNii

  • The Problem of Alteration in Aristotle’s Theory of Perception (in Japanese)

    Keiichi Iwata

    Philosophia, Waseda University Philosophical Society   ( 101 ) 1 - 26,  2014.02

    CiNii

  • The Layers of Matter and the Notion of Potentiality: An Interpretation of Aristotle’s Metaphysics Н4-5 and Θ7 (in Japanese)

    Keiichi Iwata

    Annual of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, Kyushu University   71 ( 71 ) 41 - 74,  2012.03

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  • Aristotle’s Criticism of the Megarians and the Concept of Possibility (in Japanese)

    Keiichi Iwata

    Tetsugaku-Ronbunshu, The Kyushu-Daigaku Tetsugakukai   47 ( 47 ) 1 - 28,  2011.10

    CiNii

  • Aristotle’s Account of Active Capacity in the Metaphysics Θ1-3 (in Japanese)

    Keiichi Iwata

    Annual of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, Kyushu University   70 ( 70 ) 75 - 97,  2011.03

    DOI CiNii

  • Multiple Senses of that which is in Aristotle’s Ontology (in Japanese)

    Keiichi Iwata

    Inquiry into the Meaning of Being     163 - 181,  2011.03

  • The Significance of Aristotle’s Criticism of the Theory of Forms in his Theory of Substance (in Japanese)

    Keiichi Iwata

    Annual of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, Kyushu University   69 ( 69 ) 41 - 82,  2010.03

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  • Substance and Form: The Problem of Separability in Aristotle’s Theory of Substance (in Japanese)

    Keiichi Iwata

    Annual Review of the Philosophical Association of Western Japan   ( 17 ) 1 - 19,  2009.10  [Refereed]

  • Hylomorphism and the Concept of Body (in Japanese)

    Keiichi Iwata

    Annual bulletin of the Institute of Humanistic Sciences, Special Publication, Rissho University   ( 17 ) 109 - 120,  2009.03

  • The Problem of Universals in Aristotle’s Metaphysics Z13 (in Japanese)

    Keiichi Iwata

    Annual of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, Kyushu University   68 ( 68 ) 35 - 72,  2009.03

    DOI CiNii

  • Soul as Actuality (in Japanese)

    Keiichi Iwata

    The Academic Journal of the Faculty of Letters, Rissho University   ( 24 ) 1 - 28,  2008.03

    CiNii

  • Form and Soul in Aristotle’s Metaphysics Z

    Keiichi Iwata

    Aisthesis: A Journal of Culture and Aesthetics   ( 1 ) 21 - 37,  2007.04

  • On Particulars (in Japanese)

    Keiichi Iwata

    Bulletin of East-West Center for Research into Culture and Aesthetics   ( 3 ) 1 - 18,  2007.04

  • Justice as a Virtue: Being-in-relation-to-others and Equality in Aristotle’s Theory of Justice (in Japanese)

    Keiichi Iwata

    Annual bulletin of the Institute of Humanistic Sciences, Rissho University   ( 44 ) 17 - 30,  2007.03

    CiNii

  • Energeia and Entelecheia: The Significance of Teleology in Aristotle’s Theory of the Priority of Actuality (in Japanese)

    Keiichi Iwata

    The Journal of the Department of Literature, Rissho University   ( 123 ) 1 - 25,  2006.03

  • Power and Potentiality: Two Uses of dunamis in Aristotle’s Metaphysics Θ (in Japanese)

    Keiichi Iwata

    The Journal of the Department of Literature, Rissho University   ( 121 ) 73 - 94,  2005.03

  • The Definition of ethike arete: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics II 5-6 (in Japanese)

    Keiichi Iwata

    Bulletin of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies   ( 2 ) 15 - 27,  2004.03

    CiNii

  • On Hekaston (Each Thing) in Aristotle’s Theory of Essence (in Japanese)

    Keiichi Iwata

    Philosophy, Annual Review of the Philosophical Association of Japan   ( 54 ) 154 - 166,  2003.04  [Refereed]

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    The aim of this paper is to clarify what the word hekaston signifies in Aristotle's theory of essence, as it is developed in his Metaphysics Z4-6 and 10-12. In Z4, Aristotle refers to "you, " an individual substance, as an example of hekaston, in order to explain the essence of hekaston. However, if we interpret the word hekaston to signify individual substance, it becomes difficult to understand the claim in Z6 that hekaston is to be identified with its essence. For the individual substance has essence as its essential aspect and accidents as its non-essential aspects. The alternative interpretation is that the word hekaston signifies form. But this interpretation is not appropriate to the context of Z4-6, where Aristotle does not take hylomorphism into consideration. So I suggest a third interpretation, according to which the word hekaston signifies an individual substance that is tentatively treated as that which has no accident. The advantage of this interpretation is that the word signifies such an individual substance throughout Z4-6. Furthermore, this interpretation helps us to understand the difference between the viewpoint of the first half of the theory of essence and that of the latter half.

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  • The Concept of Ousia in Aristotle’s Metaphysics Z

    Keiichi Iwata

    Philosophical Studies, Department of Philosophy, The University of Tokyo   ( 20 ) 95 - 103,  2002.03

    CiNii

  • <Substance> as Cause: The Investigation of <Substance> in Aristole’s Metaphysics Z17 (in Japanese)

    Keiichi Iwata

    Tetsugaku-Zasshi, Tetsugakukai (The Society of Philosophy), The University of Tokyo   116 ( 788 ) 168 - 184,  2001.10  [Refereed]

    CiNii

  • The Concept of the Potential-to-Become in Cusanus’ De venatione sapientiae (in Japanese)

    Keiichi Iwata

    Studies in Medieval Thought, The Japanese Society of Medieval Philosophy   43 ( 43 ) 152 - 163,  2001.09  [Refereed]

    CiNii

  • The Problem of Matter in Aristotle's Theory of Definition (in Japanese)

    Keiichi Iwata

    Philosophical Studies, Department of Philosophy, The University of Tokyo   ( 19 ) 101 - 115,  2001.03

  • Essence and Actuality: The Problem of Unity in the Metaphysics H 6 (in Japanese)

    Keiichi Iwata

    Journal of Classical Studies, The Classical Society of Japan   49 ( 49 ) 39 - 49,  2001.03  [Refereed]

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    In this paper, I shall consider the meaning of the idea that matter is potentiality and form is actuality by dealing with the problem of the unity of matter and form in Aristotle's Metaphysics H 6 According to the orthodox interpretation of H 6, Aristotle attempts to solve the problem of the unity of the definition signified by genus and differentia It is true that Aristotle refers to the definition of 'man' as 'two-footed animal', but the reference to H3 at the beginning of H 6 shows us that he is concerned with the problem of the unity of the definition combining matter and form In fact, Aristotle tentatively defines 'cloak' as 'round bronze' in order to show the problem of the unity of a definition So it is the problem of the unity of the definition composed of matter and form that should be solved by the concepts of potentiality and actuality in H 6 But Aristotle turns to the problem of the unity of matter and form, not of the definition composed of them For in his view, to give an account of the unity of matter and form is to give an account of the unity of the definition composed of them In connection with this, how should we understand the unity of the composite of matter and form ? Is it the same as the existence of a particular substance? To answer these questions, I turn to the argument of Z 17 before I examine Aristotle's solution of the problem of the unity of matter and form Aristotle's concern in Z 17 is to seek the cause by which matter is something For example, these bricks and stones are a house by the essence or the form of the house Moreover, Aristotle argues that the essence or the form is the primary cause of the existence of a particular substance by pointing out that the status of the cause is different from that of the material elements In other words, the essence or the form is the cause by which the composite of matter and form exists So what is sought in Z 17 is the cause of the existence of a composite But Aristotle treats the problem of the unity of matter and form in H 6 and he says that the unity of matter and form has no cause except the efficient cause Then the unity of matter and form should be distinguished from the existence of a composite Aristotle solves the problem by applying the concepts of potentiality and actuality to matter and form I examine how he does that by interpreting the controversial passage in which he gives us a concrete example And I find that we fall into difficulty when taking a sphere to be the composite of e g bronze and sphericality Then I explain the significance of 'what is potentially sphere being actually sphere'

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  • Matter as Potential: Becoming and Being in Aristotle’s Metaphysics (in Japanese)

    Keiichi Iwata

    Philosophical Studies, Department of Philosophy, The University of Tokyo   ( 18 ) 114 - 126,  2000.03

  • The Ontological Structure of Individuals: The Significance of ‘Predication’ in Aristotle’s Metaphysics ZH (in Japanese)

    Keiichi Iwata

    Philosophical Studies, Department of Philosophy, The University of Tokyo   ( 17 ) 181 - 193,  1999.03

  • The Problem of the Verb "to be" in Aristotle's Metaphysics H, 2 (in Japanese)

    Keiichi Iwata

    Bulletin of Classical Studies, Association for Classical Studies   ( 6 ) 33 - 46,  1997.07

    CiNii

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Books and Other Publications

  • メルロ=ポンティ哲学者事典 第一巻――東洋と哲学・哲学の創始者たち・キリスト教と哲学

    モーリス・メルロ=ポンティ編著、加賀野井秀一、伊藤泰雄、本郷均、加國尚志監訳( Part: Contributor, 補記(ソクラテス)(pp. 178-181)、補記(アリストテレス)(pp. 222-225))

    白水社  2017.07 ISBN: 9784560093115

  • Aristotle’s Theory of Being: What Is <Substance>?

    Keiichi Iwata( Part: Sole author)

    Waseda University Press  2015.03 ISBN: 9784657157027

Presentations

  • アリストテレスにおけるウーシアーの優位性について

    岩田 圭一

    ギリシャ哲学セミナー 第25回共同研究セミナー 

    Presentation date: 2022.09

  • Happiness and Wisdom in Aristotle

    Keiichi Iwata

    15th Congress of the Fédération internationale des associations d'études classiques and the Classical Association annual conference 2019 (Chair: Koji Tachibana), 

    Presentation date: 2019.07

  • Subjecthood and Definability in Aristotle’s Investigation of Substance

    Keiichi Iwata

    14th Annual International Conference on Philosophy (Athens Institute for Education and Research), 

    Presentation date: 2019.05

  • アリストテレスの魂論における思惟と思惟対象について

    岩田 圭一

    第166回Philethセミナー(第6回PAP研究会) 

    Presentation date: 2016.09

  • アリストテレス『魂論』第3巻第4章における知性について

    岩田 圭一

    第5回PAP研究会 

    Presentation date: 2016.03

  • 『アリストテレスの存在論――〈実体〉とは何か』について

    岩田 圭一

    第155回Philethセミナー 

    Presentation date: 2015.08

  • 倫理的知の可能性――ソクラテスとアリストテレス――

    岩田 圭一

    東洋大学国際哲学研究センター第3ユニットシンポジウム 

    Presentation date: 2015.06

  • 本質・形相・現実態――アリストテレスの存在理解――

    岩田 圭一

    哲学会 

    Presentation date: 2014.11

  • アリストテレスのデュナミス論と「質料」の概念

    岩田 圭一

    早稲田大学哲学会シンポジウム「デュナミスの射程」 

    Presentation date: 2013.07

  • アリストテレスの実体論における「質料」の問題

    岩田 圭一

    西日本古代哲学会 

    Presentation date: 2012.04

  • 能力と活動―アリストテレス『形而上学』Θ巻におけるメガラ派批判の意義―

    岩田 圭一

    九州大学哲学会 

    Presentation date: 2010.09

  • 実体と形相―アリストテレスの実体論における離在可能性の問題―

    岩田 圭一

    西日本哲学会 

    Presentation date: 2008.12

  • 可能的にあるものとしての身体―アリストテレスにおける魂の定義をめぐって―

    岩田 圭一

    哲学会 

    Presentation date: 2006.10

  • アリストテレスの存在論における「普遍」の問題

    岩田 圭一

    哲学会 

    Presentation date: 2002.11

  • アリストテレスの個体把握における二つの視点

    岩田 圭一

    地中海文明研究会例会 

    Presentation date: 2001.10

  • クザーヌスにおける世界把握としての「生成可能」―『知恵の狩猟について』における用法を手がかりに―

    岩田 圭一

    中世哲学会 

    Presentation date: 2000.11

  • 本質と現実性―『形而上学』Η巻第6章における一性の問題―

    岩田 圭一

    日本西洋古典学会 

    Presentation date: 2000.06

  • アリストテレス自然学における「運動」の把握

    岩田 圭一

    日本倫理学会 

    Presentation date: 1999.10

  • アリストテレス形而上学における「第一の実体」

    岩田 圭一

    日本哲学会 

    Presentation date: 1999.05

  • アリストテレスの中庸学説における〈中間〉―『ニコマコス倫理学』第2巻第6章―

    岩田 圭一

    ギリシア哲学研究会 

    Presentation date: 1999.03

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Research Projects

  • アリストテレスの「ウーシアー」概念の再構築

    科学研究費補助金 基盤研究(C)

    Project Year :

    2022.04
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  • アリストテレス倫理学の再定位を通した新たな自然主義的倫理学の構想(分担)

    科学研究費補助金 基盤研究(B)(研究代表者:近藤 智彦)

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    2017.04
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    2021.03
     

  • アリストテレスの存在論における「本質」と「現実態」の哲学的意義に関する研究

    科学研究費補助金 若手研究(B)

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    2012.04
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    2015.03
     

  • A Study on Aristotle' s Theory of Substance and Actuality in the Central Books of the Metaphysics

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

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    2009.04
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    2012.03
     

    IWATA Kehchi

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    This study dealt especially with the problems of the notions of universal and of dunamis(capacity/possibility/potentiality) in Aristotle' s theory of substance and actuality in the central books(ZHO) of the Metaphysics, and attempted to clarify the significance of these notions. As regards the notion of universal, I considered how the claim in the Metaphysics Z 13-16 that no universal is a substance should be understood, and especially whether or not the claim was consistent with Aristotle' s view that the form, which is regarded as a substance, is a universal. I interpreted that it was important that the claim was made in the context of Aristotle' s consideration of the particular form, thinking that the universal form did not exist without the particular form. As regards the notion of dunamis, I made clear that the notion of possibility was made explicit in Aristotle' s criticism of the view of the Megarians who denied the existence of capacity, and that the notion of potentiality, which was also applied to matter, was clarified. Then, I obtained a further understanding of matter as potentiality by reference to Aristotle' s natural philosophy.

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Misc

  • Lindsay Judson, Aristotle, Metaphysics Book Λ, Translated with an Introduction and Commentary (Book Review)

    Keiichi Iwata

    Journal of Classical Studies, The Classical Society of Japan   ( 69 ) 166 - 168,  2022.03

    Book review, literature introduction, etc.  

  • Charlotte Witt, Ways of Being: Potentiality and Actuality in Aristotle's Metaphysics (Book Review)

    Keiichi Iwata

    Journal of Classical Studies, The Classical Society of Japan   ( 53 ) 164 - 167,  2005.03

    Book review, literature introduction, etc.  

 

Syllabus

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Overseas Activities

  • アリストテレスにおける先行哲学者批判と「第一哲学」の構想

    2018.09
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    2020.01

    イギリス   オックスフォード大学

Sub-affiliation

  • Affiliated organization   Global Education Center

Internal Special Research Projects

  • アリストテレスの形而上学と倫理学における現実活動としての幸福に関する研究

    2016  

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    本研究では現実活動としての幸福をテーマとして取り上げたが、とくに知性的能力の発揮としての幸福を理解するための基礎作業として、『魂論』第3巻の知性論を取り上げた。まず、『魂論』第3巻第3章を取り上げ、知性的能力に関わる術語を整理するとともに、知性的能力と感覚や表象との区別について確認を行った。次に、『魂論』第3巻第4章を取り上げ、知性の本性、および知性と知性対象との関係について、主として、感覚との類比による説明が行われている箇所に基づいて考察を行った。また、知性が知性対象としての本質を捉えることを説明する難解な箇所を取り上げ、一定の解釈を提示し、知性の働き方について理解を深めた。

  • アリストテレスの存在論と魂論における人間存在の研究

    2015  

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    本研究はアリストテレスの存在論と魂論を研究対象とし、哲学の立場から人間存在について考察を行った。まず、これまでの研究成果を踏まえてその存在論の全体を見渡し、「実体」「本質」「形相」「現実態」といった主要な概念について再考を行い、人間存在を考えるための概念的基盤を明確にした。次に、魂論に関して、自己認識の働きを担う共通感覚に関する前年度の研究との関連で、自己認識の問題が考察されているプラトン『カルミデス』を取り上げ、人間がよく生きるための出発点としての自己認識の可能性について考察を行った。さらに、『魂論』第3巻第4章における知性論を取り上げ、知性の本性の考察を通じて人間存在の特質を明らかにした。

  • アリストテレスの認識論における基礎概念の研究

    2013  

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     アリストテレスの認識論における基礎概念を明確化するために、『魂論』第2巻第5-12章における感覚一般と個別的感覚に関する論述、そして第3巻第1-2章における共通感覚に関する論述を取り上げ、研究文献を参照しながら解釈を行った。これによって、アリストテレス哲学に特徴的な「可能態-現実態」の対概念がその感覚論においてどのような仕方で用いられているか、また「共通感覚」と呼ばれる能力がどのような働きをするものであるか、そしてそれは個別的感覚とどのように関係しているかといったことに関して、一定の理解を得ることができた。 本研究においてとくに注目したのは、個別的感覚がその対象を受容して感覚が成立するときに当該の感覚が「性質的変化」として説明されていることである。この点に関するアリストテレスの論述には曖昧さがあり、解釈者たちは、大まかに言って、感覚器官の側で物体的な次元での変化があるとするか、あるいはそのような変化は起こっておらず、魂の側で形相的な次元での変化が起こっているにすぎないとするかで分かれている。本研究では、感覚が運動として捉えられている点に着目して、「可能態-現実態」の対概念の感覚論への適用の仕方に注意しながらテクストを読解し考察を行った。その結果、後者の解釈のほうがアリストテレスの感覚論によりふさわしいものであるという見通しを得るに至った。 アリストテレスの認識論に関する研究は本研究において着手したものであり、今後、さらに発展させる必要がある。感覚論に関して言えば、感覚は質料なしに形相を受容することであるとか、感覚は比であるといった見解について、関連テクストの読解を通じてさらに検討する必要がある。こうした継続する研究によって、本研究で得た解釈の方向性が妥当なものであることが示されるのではないかと考えている。なお、本研究は、「現実態」の哲学的意義を明らかにしようとする科研費の研究課題と連動しており、科研費による「可能態-現実態」の対概念の研究の上に成り立っていることを付言しておく。