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  title info:
    title: Doing and being
    sub title: an interpretation of Aristotle's Metaphysics theta
  name:
    name part: Beere, Jonathan B.
    name part: 1974-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Oxford University Press
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Kommentar.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 367 pages)
  abstract: '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.
  table of 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.
  note: Jonathan Beere.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-356) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Aristotle
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Metaphysics (Aristotle)
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Aristoteles
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
    topic: Metaphysics
  classification: B434 .B44 2009
  classification: 110
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    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009
    identifier: (DLC) 2009024507
    identifier: (OCoLC)326670435
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    record content source: LGG
    record creation date: 090616
    record change date: 20260318175227.3
    record identifier: in00005704601
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng