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Doing and Being

Name: Doing and Being
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780199206704
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Autor: Jonathan Beere

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Doing and Being confronts the problem of how to understand two central concepts of Aristotle's philo...

Informácie o knihe

Autor

Jonathan Beere

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydalo

2009

Stránok

382

EAN

9780199206704

ISBN

0199206708

Enbook ID

04034134

Vydavateľ

Oxford University Press

Hmotnosť

734

Rozmery

166 x 240 x 28

Kompletný popis

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 Sophist and Aristotle's Metaphysics Theta, and to give satisfying interpretations of the major claims that Aristotle makes in Metaphysics Theta, the claim that energeia is prior in being to capacity (Theta 8) and the claim that any eternal principle must be perfectly good (Theta 9).