Doing and being : an interpretation of Aristotle's Metaphysics theta / Jonathan Beere.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beere, Jonathan B., 1974- author.

Series:

Oxford Aristotle studies.

Oxford Aristotle studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. Metaphysics--Book 9.

Aristotle.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 367 pages).

Other Title:

Interpretation of Aristotle's Metaphysics theta

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 byworking out an analogical conception of energeia. This approach enables Beere to discern a hitherto unnoticed connection between Plato's Sophist and Aristot

Contents:

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 & 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.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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ISBN:

1-283-11576-X

9786613115768

0-19-157153-9

OCLC:

609850493