This essay explores Aristotle’s discovery of touch as the most universal and philosophical of the senses. It analyses his central insight in the De Anima that tactile flesh is a “medium not an organ,” unpacking both its metaphysical and ethical implications. The essay concludes with a discussion of how contemporary phenomenology—from Husserl to Merleau-Ponty and Irigaray—re-describes Aristotle’s seminal intuition regarding the model of “double reversible sensation.”

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接触哲学：从亚里士多德到现象学

本文探讨了亚里士多德对触觉的发现，触觉是最普遍和最感性的哲学。它分析了他在《德阿尼玛》（De Anima）中的核心见识，即触觉肉是一种“媒介而不是器官”，同时揭示了其形而上学和伦理学意义。本文的结尾讨论了从胡塞尔到梅洛-庞蒂和伊里格里的当代现象学如何重新描述了亚里士多德关于“双重可逆感觉”模型的开创性直觉。