প্রসঙ্গ সামান্যসত্ত্বার বস্তুগতমূল্য: চরমপন্থী নামবাদের দৃষ্টিভঙ্গিতে সংক্ষিপ্ত পর্যালোচনা
Volume-XI, Issue-I, October 2022
Volume-XI, Issue-I, October 2022 | ||
Published Online: 31.10.2022 | Page No: 84-89 | |||
প্রসঙ্গ সামান্যসত্ত্বার বস্তুগতমূল্য: চরমপন্থী নামবাদের দৃষ্টিভঙ্গিতে সংক্ষিপ্ত পর্যালোচনা ভবেশ গায়েন, সহকারী অধ্যাপক, দর্শন বিভাগ, কাজী নজরুল বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় এবং পিএইচ. ডি. গবেষক, দর্শন বিভাগ, যাদবপুর বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় | |
On the Commodity Value of the Marginal Entity: A Brief Review from the Perspective of Radical Nominalism Bhavesh Gayen, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Kazi Nazrul University, and Ph.D. Researcher, Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University | |
The problem of universal is one of the most interesting and enduring topics in the history of metaphysics. This problem has been highlighted from the ancient period in Greek and still it is continued towards a permanent solution. The debate is basically divided into two trends, one is realism and the other is nominalism in ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary period, center round the issue of universal. In this context Plato and Aristotle is realist philosopher in ancient era in broad sense. Grossly realist Plato said that concepts are not merely an idea in the mind, but something which has a reality of its own, outside and independent of human mind. But Aristotle, the student of Plato, criticized and gave a moderate version of realism about the problem of universal. According to Aristotle, Plato’s theory of ideas has failed to explain the relation between individuals and universals, the existence of individuals, the motions of objects etc. But the opponent of realism, basically the nominalists deny the absolute reality of universal. They claims that their explanation is ontologically simple than realists and the explanation of universals are very much logical. They believe that it is possible to provide fully satisfactory accounts of attribute agreement, subject-predicate discourse, and abstract reference that posits only particular or individual. I want to analyze the nominal’s view not only the Greek, medieval, modern period but also the different versions, followed by Prof. M.J. Loux, like as Austere nominalism and others. According to extreme version of nominalism, Austere Nominalism only concrete particulars are existing. There is no absolute ontology and they holds that all claims apparently about universals are just disguised ways of making claims about concrete particulars. But obviously there are serious difficulties with this extreme version of nominalism and those difficulties have led some philosophers to endorse other form of nominalism. In this paper I want to critically discuss the extreme version of nominalism and want to share my opinion about the said context. | |
Keywords: Metaphysics, Universal, Particular, Realism, Nominalism |