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Darrera modificació: 2023-05-25
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Robert, Aurélien, "The diversity of Human Languages and Climate Theory: Philosophy and Medicine in Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle's De Sensu et sensato", Micrologus, 31 (= Aristotle's De sensu in the Latin Tradition, 1250 - 1650)/número especial (2023), 153-190.
- Resum
- In five commentaries on Aristotle's De sensu et sensato from the Parisian milieu between the end of the thirteenth and the middle of the fourteenth century, one can find questions about the origin of the diversity of languages. More surprisingly, these texts discuss the possibility of explaining this diversity by means of climate theory, which has both medical and astronomical origins. In the context of these debates, some authors come to defend a naturalistic view of linguistic diversity by clearly opposing the account of the dispersion of languages after the Babel episode. This paper therefore attempts to understand the nature of this medieval questioning of the naturalism of languages, pointing out that, apart from Epicurus and his followers in Antiquity, few philosophers explained the variety of languages by purely natural causes linked to the environment.
- Matèries
- Geografia i viatges
Història de la medicina
Religió
Aristòtil
Filosofia
Història de la ciència
- URL
- https://www.academia.edu/100104941/The_diversity_of ...
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