略论亚里士多德智慧观

“智慧”是古希腊哲学的重要概念。亚里士多德在综合自然哲学家们、苏格拉底和柏拉图的“智慧”思想的基础上指出,哲学智慧必定是研究“第一原理和原因”的知识。他认为,有四个不同的原因,即质料因、动力因、形式因和目的因。其意义远不在这“第一原因”本身是否正确,而在于它开拓了从具体到抽象提升的思想方法的飞跃,为以后西方思想方法的完善奠定了重要基础。这也是科学理性能够从西方产生,科学文明能够从西方孕育发展的根本所在。

A Brief Research into Aristotle's Philosophy of Sagacity

Sagacity"is the main concept of the ancient Greek philosophy. By combining natural philosophers', Socrates' and Plato's ideas of sagacity, Aristotle points out that wisdom of philosophy must be knowledge for the research of "the first principle and cause". He holds that there are four different causes-material cause, motivation cause, form cause and objective cause. Its significance is not in the correctness of ″the first cause″ proper, but in the elevation from the concrete to the abstract. It lays a solid foundation for the completion of the western methods of thinking .This is why scientific rationality came into being in the west and why scientific civilization was impregnated and grown in the west.