Doing and Being confronts the problem of how to understand two central concepts of Aristotle's philosophy: energeia and dunamis. While these terms seem ambiguous between actuality/potentiality and activity/capacity, Aristotle did not intend them to be so. Through a careful and detailed reading of Metaphysics Theta, Beere argues that we can solve the problem by rejecting both "actuality" and "activity" as translations of energeia, and by working out an analogical conception of energeia. This approach enables Beere to discern a hitherto unnoticed connection between Plato's.
Doing and Being: An Interpretation of Aristotle's Metaphysics Theta (Oxford Aristotle Studies Series) book series pdf
Doing and Being: An Interpretation of Aristotle's Metaphysics Theta (Oxford Aristotle Studies Series) book
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