Hyle
Hyle ( Greek ὕλη , hylē 'wood' in the sense of 'raw material', 'substance, matter ') appears as a philosophical term in the context of Aristotelian physics and metaphysics , where it uses 'form' and 'substance' within the pair of terms becomes. There hyle is the first underlying bar of all determination, the malleable matter, the material , the 'primordial matter ' that is created by the technē , i.e. H. human work takes a certain shape. In Homer's earlier usage , the ancient Greek expression hyle denotes wood, wood or forest.
literature
- Heinz Happ : Hyle. Studies on the Aristotelian concept of matter. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1971 (Habil.-Schr. Univ. Tübingen).
Web links
Wiktionary: Hyle - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Individual evidence
- ^ Gotthard Strohmaier : Avicenna. Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-41946-1 , p. 66.
- ↑ Werner Marx : Introduction to Aristotle's Theory of Beings , Freiburg i. Br. 1972, p. 40.
- ↑ See for example Max Jammer : Concepts of Mass in Classical and Modern Physics , Courier Dover Publications, New York 1997, ISBN 0486299988 , p. 19.