mēon (English spelling) meon

Japanese: mēon(英語表記)meon
mēon (English spelling) meon


[Genealogy of Western concepts of space]
In the ancient Greek cultural sphere, noteworthy theories of space can be found in Democritus, Plato, and Aristotle. In Democritus, space was seen as a complete emptiness (mēon) (i.e., the negation of all existence), and it was also seen as a space for atoms (atoms) to move as entities. In ancient Greece, this concept of space as the negation of existence was extremely rare, and in fact both Plato and Aristotle did not hide their strong antipathy towards Democritus.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "mēon" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:


【西欧的空間概念の系譜】
 古代ギリシア文化圏で注目すべき空間論はデモクリトス,それにプラトン,アリストテレスに見いだせよう。デモクリトスにおいては,空間は,完全な〈空虚mēon〉(すなわちいっさいの存在の否定)としてとらえられ,それはまた,存在としての原子(アトム)が運動するための余地であるとみなされた。古代ギリシアでは,こうした存在の否定としての空間概念はきわめて珍しく,事実プラトンもアリストテレスもデモクリトスへの激しい反感を隠していない。…

※「mēon」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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