{"product_id":"doing-and-being-jonathan-beere-9780199652044","title":"Doing and Being: An Interpretation of Aristotle's Metaphysics Theta","description":"\u003cem\u003eDoing and Being \u003c\/em\u003econfronts the problem of how to understand two central concepts of Aristotle's philosophy: \u003cem\u003eenergeia \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003edunamis\u003c\/em\u003e. While these terms seem ambiguous between actuality\/potentiality and activity\/capacity, Aristotle did not intend them to be so. Through a careful and detailed reading of \u003cem\u003eMetaphysics \u003c\/em\u003eTheta, Beere argues that we can solve the problem by rejecting both \"actuality\" and \"activity\" as translations of \u003cem\u003eenergeia\u003c\/em\u003e, and by working out an analogical conception of \u003cem\u003eenergeia\u003c\/em\u003e. This approach enables Beere to discern a hitherto unnoticed connection between Plato's \u003cem\u003eSophist \u003c\/em\u003eand Aristotle's \u003cem\u003eMetaphysics \u003c\/em\u003eTheta, and to give satisfying interpretations of the major claims that Aristotle makes in \u003cem\u003eMetaphysics \u003c\/em\u003eTheta, the claim that \u003cem\u003eenergeia \u003c\/em\u003eis prior in being to capacity (Theta 8) and the claim that any eternal principle must be perfectly good (Theta 9).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Beere\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 019965204X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199652044\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 382\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.40d","brand":"Jonathan Beere","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44159191318783,"sku":"9780199652044","price":59.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_316b3c9e-abfd-4636-a3dc-fd88a6c7b6f7.jpg?v=1689081152","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/doing-and-being-jonathan-beere-9780199652044","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}