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The activity of being : an essay on Aristotle's ontology /

Understanding "what something is" has long occupied philosophers, and no Western thinker has had more influence on the nature of being than Aristotle. Focusing on a reinterpretation of the concept of energeia as "activity," Aryeh Kosman reexamines Aristotle's ontology and so...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kosman, Louis Aryeh
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2013.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Being and substance
  • Motion and activity
  • Activity and substance
  • The activity of living being
  • What something is
  • Something's being what it is
  • The first mover
  • Divine being and thought
  • The activity of being.