The terminology of Aristotle in Ukrainian from the point of view of Latin legacy: the prolegomena to the translation of “Categories”

• Authors: Lystopad Iryna

Title variants

UK

Пролегомени до перекладу «Категорій». Український переклад з огляду на латинський спадок

• Languages of publication: UK

Abstracts

EN

The article is designated to estimate the potential of Ukrainian language for the creation of the new and activation of the old philosophical terminology in order to accomplish the first translation of Aristotle’s “Categories” in Ukrainian. The author treats peculiarities of original Aristotle’s vocabulary, its Latin interpretation made by Boethius and their Ukrainian analogues. The article includes a short introduction, where the history of Ukrainian translation of Aristotle is considered in brief, the observation of the mains metaphysical terms of Aristotelian logic (substance, subject, predicate, etc.) and of the categories themselves (quantity, quality, relation, etc.).

Keywords

EN

Aristotle, terminology, translation, ancient philosophy, logic, epistemology

• Publisher: G.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Journal: Філософська Думка
• Year: 2011
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 93-105

Contributors

author

Lystopad Iryna