Activity of Being - An Essay on Aristotles Ontology

Informationen zum Autor Aryeh Kosman is John Whitehead Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Haverford College. Klappentext Understanding "what something is" has long occupied philosophers, and no Western thinker has had more influence on the nature of being than Aristotle. Focusing on a reinterpretation of the concept of energeia as "activity," Aryeh Kosman reexamines Aristotle's ontology and some of our most basic assumptions about the great philosopher's thought. Zusammenfassung Understanding “what something is” has long occupied philosophers, and no Western thinker has had more influence on the nature of being than Aristotle. Focusing on a reinterpretation of the concept of energeia as “activity,” Aryeh Kosman reexamines Aristotle’s ontology and some of our most basic assumptions about the great philosopher’s thought.

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• Authors: Kosman, Aryeh Kosman, Louis Aryeh Kosman, Kosman Aryeh
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.03.2013
• EAN: 9780674072862
• ISBN: 978-0-674-07286-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Metaphysik und Ontologie, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy