プラトン哲学における身体論序説―体育哲学への方法論的アプローチ―

抄録

This paper aims to sketch out the framework for the analysis of Plato's study of the human body, and to clarify the direction of the search. It intends to give a new aspect of his theories of physical education.

Michitaroh Tanaka methodologically focuses on Laws which is one of the last of Plato's works. Tanaka proposes three principals from Plato's Philosophy: Soul, Reason and Form. In this paper I, by following Tanaka, have contemplated the relationships between the principals and the body (soma): master to servant, means to an end, and paradigm and likeness which are represented as the relationships between self-motion and motion by others, Cause and Accessory Cause, and One and Many. Plato uses the relationships as the framework for an analysis in his ontology.

Since the body has close connections to the before mentioned principals, Plato's study of the human body must be explained in connection with or by his study of the soul and the form. The human body can also be defined by internal relationships.