Doing and Being by Jonathan Beere
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).-
Time for Aristotle
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Aristotle on the Common Sense
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Aristotle on Meaning and Essence
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The Undivided Self
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Aristotle's Defence of Philosophy in the Protrepticus
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Aristotle on the Essence of Human Thought
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Aristotle on Teleology
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The Powers of Aristotle's Soul
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Aristotle on the Sources of the Ethical Life
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Aristotle's De Interpretatione
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On Location
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Teleology, First Principles, and Scientific Method in Aristotle's Biology
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Political Authority and Obligation in Aristotle
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Order in Multiplicity
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Aristotle's Theory of Substance
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Passions and Persuasion in Aristotle's Rhetoric
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Aristotle on Knowledge and Learning
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Aristotle on Shame and Learning to Be Good
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Priority in Aristotle's Metaphysics
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How Aristotle gets by in Metaphysics Zeta
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Aristotle on the Apparent Good
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Aristotle on What Emotions Are
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Aristotle and the Eleatic One
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Space, Time, Matter, and Form
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 *
an excellent textual analysis * Anna Marmadoro, Mind *
an excellent textual analysis * Anna Marmadoro, Mind *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199652044 |
| ISBN 10 | 019965204X |
| Title | Doing and Being |
| Author | Jonathan Beere |
| Series | Oxford Aristotle Studies Series |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2012-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 382 |
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