Doing and Being - An Interpretation of Aristotle's Metaphysics Theta

Zusatztext an excellent textual analysis Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Beere is a member of the Department of Philosophy, as well as the Graduate School of Ancient Philosophy and the Excellence Cluster Topoi, at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. He was previously Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. Klappentext Doing and Being confronts the problem of how to understand two central concepts of Aristotle's philosophy: energeia and dunamis. These terms seem ambiguous between actuality/potentiality and activity/capacity, but Aristotle did not intend this. Beere's careful reading of Metaphysics Theta shows the way to an analogical conception of energeia. Zusammenfassung Doing and Being confronts the problem of how to understand two central concepts of Aristotle's philosophy: energeia and dunamis. These terms seem ambiguous between actuality/potentiality and activity/capacity, but Aristotle did not intend this. Beere's careful reading of Metaphysics Theta shows the way to an analogical conception of energeia. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: The Significance of Metaphysics Theta 1: Peace between the Gods and Giants 2: The Introduction to Metaphysics Theta (Theta 1) Part II: Powers for Action and Passion 3: Powers (Theta 1) 4: Rational Powers (Theta 2) 5: Powers and Possibilities: The Megarics (Theta 3) 6: Possibility and the Future (Theta 3 and 4) 7: The Exercise of Powers (Theta 5) Part III: Being-in-Energeia and Being-in-Capacity 8: Actuality, Activity, Ambiguity 9: Being-in-Energeia (Theta 6) 10: Interlude: The Energeia-Kinesis Distinction (Theta 6) 11: Being-in-Capacity (Theta 7) Part IV: The Priority and Superiority of Energeia 12: Being-in-Capacity and Matter (Theta 7) 13: The Priority of Energeia (Theta 8) 14: The Bad Itself (with Speculations on Goodness) (Theta 9) Bibliography

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• Authors: Jonathan Beere, Jonathan (Humboldt University Beere
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2010
• EAN: 9780199206704
• ISBN: 978-0-19-920670-4
• No. of pages: 372
• Series: Oxford Aristotle Studies Series; Oxford Aristotle Studies; Oxford Aristotle Studies Series; Oxford Aristotle Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500