Ways of being : potentiality and actuality in Aristotle's Metaphysics /
Charlotte Witt continues her highly regarded exploration of Aristotle's metaphysics in a book devoted to the ontological distinction between potentiality and actuality. She focuses on Metaphysics book ix, which provides the most sustained discussion of this distinction. Witt rejects the convent...
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- Aristotle's defense of Dunamis
- Power and potentiality
- Rational and nonrational powers
- The priority of actuality
- Ontological hierarchy, normativity, and gender.