Abstract

FALLAS LOPEZ, Luis Alberto. The Aristotelian individual: Between Particularity and Singularity. Estud.filos [online]. 2006, n.34, pp.147-185. ISSN 0121-3628.

A revision of the use and implications of the expression καθ᾽ ἕκαστον in a great part of the aristotelian work is made. The treatises that make up the Organon have an especial interest in this study, but the ontological, cosmological, ethical, political and biological texts are not left aside. The said formula designates the individual in the Discursive Logic of the Stagirite, but the ways in which it is understood are not completely congruent; therefore there is a change from a singularism, that entails a unique and irreplaceable identity, and therefore unknowable for a part of science, to a particularism, this is, a vision from an universalist perspective that converts Individuals in participants of common conditions, with which the cognitive problems are solved, even though the Potency of Individuation, which could be in its pretended singularity, is left suspended. A fundamental pretense of this paper is to show how in Aristotelianism there is a strong universalist tendency as a formula to solve the apories that arise from Individuation, and that therefore it is Formalism, which no doubt arouse from Platonism, which is to define the modes par excellence of access to the real tangible.

Keywords : Aristotle; Individual; Singular; Particular; Knowledge; Entity.

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