Palingenesis in the whole of the Aristotelian Philosophy
Esta es mi propuesta para este congreso
Palingenesis in the whole of the Aristotelian Philosophy
In
his lost dialogue On Philosophy (Fr. 8b de Vallejo 2005:
273), Aristotle develops the idea, which is already in Plato (Ti 23a, Plt 269b9
and Lg 676), that Nature is subject to a periodic destruction produced by
cataclysms or by gradual natural phenomena. In Meteorologica
(351b9-13) he insists on the same idea as if it were a verified fact. He
affirms in this work that Civilizations periodically disappear for different
reasons and in different ways. The total rupture that exists between one
civilization and the next one prevents people of one era from keeping in mind
historical memory or remembering what constitutes their cultural heritage. In
consequence it is impossible for them to make history of the remote times.
Everything that constitutes the identity of a community
is, for this reason, also lost: technical knowledge, political configuration
and historical and mythical collective beliefs about one's past and about the
existence of the gods and their nature (Longo1984: 49).
More important than
the theory of the destruction of civilizations is its subsequent consequence,
what is called palingenesis, the rebirth of the historical course. And this is the topic of this
paper. I propose going deeper in the theory of palingenesis, linking it to the two strong points of
Aristotle’s conception of the history and politics: that of the development of
the community and that of the structure of the Cosmos.
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