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Aristotle -
father of logic, I
Who
was the mother of this antique born child – logic?
logic in antic times was considered just as a
birth from the mind and previous philosophies
he was in
love with - no superiority was given to her, but it was considered
just as a child yet needed to be carried out by his upper instance - mind
itself.
It
is beyond any doubt and also anonymously accepted that Aristotle was the father
of Logic, but the question of motherhood it is not only that wasn’t cleared out
but it is rarely even posed as a dilemma. Why is that important? Because
knowing the motherhood of logic may
tell us more about the nature and character of that marriage and positions the
parents took in it. Of course there a lot indications of who might be the
mother - it is most simple to say
that it was tradition of philosophy, but
it is not that
precise and doesn’t refer to any particular
philosophy ; maybe
it was Socrates or Plato’s philosophy? If we look upon the structure and
direction of thinking in Organon
there are many indications that the Aristotle’s logic or Organon was aimed to clarify some unnatural and forced disputes and
misleading that had been mostly spread out by the sophists; also it might be
Socrates’
teaching with his tendency of giving more precise definitions along
together with extensive and dense Plato’s dialogues. But we may never know with
a sufficient certainty which words and thinking in Plato’s works are of
Socrates, which of Plato’s; it shouldn’t be far from truth if it is said that
Socrates teaching might be taken as his sympathy or as early love that later on
was abandoned for the one much greater love - Plato. Thus spoken in metaphor is
not important just from retrospective and genealogical side of Logic, but also
by the perspective of this discipline up to the modern times.
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