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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 …
Aristotle On The Nature Of Logos, John P. Anton
Aristotle On The Nature Of Logos, John P. Anton
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Attention has been frequently drawn to the problems attending attempts "to trace a long progression of meanings in the history of the word logos" (Kerferd). Especially difficult proved the assigning to Aristotle a place in this long progression. One of the reasons is that we have yet to reconstruct his theory of logos. The difficulty is not so much with the complexity of the uses of the term in his works as it is with the widely recognized fact that he left no special treatise on the subject of a doctrine of logos, not to be confused with the instrumentalities …