Doing and Being : An Interpretation of Aristotle's Metaphysics Theta
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Oxford Aristotle Studies Series
ISBN-10
0199206708
ISBN-13
9780199206704
Publisher
Oxford University Press
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Oxford University Press
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GB
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GB
Publication Date
Oct 29th, 2009
Print length
382 Pages
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734 grams
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24.00 x 16.60 x 2.80 cms
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Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology
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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.
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).
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