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Energeia And Entelecheia: Their Conception, Development And Relation, Thomas Olshewsky
Energeia And Entelecheia: Their Conception, Development And Relation, Thomas Olshewsky
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Stephen Menn, in his recent article on energeia and dynamis, has stirred the coals of recent controversy about understandings of Aristotle’s terms 'energeia' and ‘entelecheia', controversy about which he himself seemed totally oblivious. While he offered us careful explorations of Aristotle’s texts, he took no note of similar studies from over a quarter century ago by Chen Chuang-Hwan and by George Blair, nor of the more recent works by Blair, Daniel Graham and John Rist. So much the worse for his efforts, since these cover much of the same territory with conclusions rather divergent from his own. He has been …