Ways of Being: Potentiality and Actuality in Aristotle's Metaphysics

Charlotte Witt

Published by Cornell University Press 2003

Ways of Being

Potentiality and Actuality in Aristotle's Metaphysics

Charlotte Witt

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501711503

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About this book

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...

Author / Editor information

Charlotte Witt is Professor and Chair in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Hampshire. She is author of Substance and Essence in Aristotle: An Interpretation of Metaphysics VII-IX, also from Cornell, and coeditor of A Mind of One's Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity.

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Theodore Scaltsas, University of Edinburgh:

This unique book on Aristotle's metaphysics discusses Aristotle's theory of value and connects it in a very illuminating way to contemporary feminist critical readings of Aristotle's metaphysics. This connection is interesting, revelatory, and original.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER ONE. Aristotle's Defense of Dunamis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
CHAPTER TWO. Power and Potentiality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
CHAPTER THREE.Rational and Nonrational Powers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
CHAPTER FOUR .The Priority of Actuality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
CHAPTER FIVE. Ontological Hierarchy, Normativity, and Gender Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 176
Keywords: Philosophy; History; Ancient History & Classical Studies

eBook

Published: May 31, 2018
ISBN: 9781501711503