Jonathan Beere

Broschiertes Buch

Doing and Being

An Interpretation of Aristotle's Metaphysics Theta

Beschreibung

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.

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 579g
• ISBN-13: 9780199652044
• ISBN-10: 019965204X
• Artikelnr.: 34553009

Rezensionen

Jonathan Beere's Doing and Being is a thorough, well informed and insightful chapter-by-chapter commentary on the bulk of Aristotle's Metaphysics Theta . Boris Hennig, Philosophical Quarterly