• philosophy, potentiality and actuality are a pair of closely connected principles which Aristotle used to analyze motion, causality, ethics, and physiology...
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    Aristotle (category Philosophers and tutors of Alexander the Great)
    the concept of potentiality (dynamis) and actuality (entelecheia) in association with the matter and the form. Referring to potentiality, this is what...
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  • Ways of Being: Potentiality and Actuality in Aristotle's Metaphysics is focused on Aristotle's discussion of potentiality and actuality, found in Metaphysics...
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  • Aristotelian philosophical concepts of potentiality and actuality Kinesis Industry, a manufacturer of bicycle frames and components Kinesis Industry, a holdings...
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  • Potency in philosophy is a specific potentiality in Aristotle's Theory of Potentiality and actuality, or "Act and Potency"; e.g., since the material,...
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    subject to change (47 or 55), Aristotle's account of aether, and of potentiality and actuality, required an individual unmoved mover for each sphere. Simplicius...
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    he distinguished between substances and their accidents, and between potentiality and actuality. Neoplatonists like Plotinus (204–270 CE) suggested reality...
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  • of potentiality and actuality. He defines eudaimonia in terms of this theory as an actuality (energeia); the virtues which allow eudaimonia (and enjoyment...
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    with the definition of change based on Aristotle's notions of potentiality and actuality. Change, he says, is the actualization of a thing's ability insofar...
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  • theory of potentiality and actuality (in Greek, dynamis and energeia), translated into Latin as potentia and actualitas (earlier also possibilitas and efficacia)...
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    monads with utter clarity". God could take any and all perspectives, knowing of both potentiality and actuality. As well as that God in all his power would...
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  • Actus primus (redirect from First actuality)
    But as the same reality may be called "actuality" when viewed in the light of what precedes, and "potentiality" when viewed in the light of what follows...
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  • Max Weber's thesis on self-denial Potentiality and actuality "To Immanentize the Eschaton - English definition and meaning". Lexico. Archived from the...
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    Actus purus (redirect from Pure actuality)
    (Latin for 'Pure Actuality' / 'Pure Act') is the absolute perfection of God. Created beings have potentiality that is not actuality, imperfections as...
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  • itself". Actuality is the completed state of something that had the potential to be completed. The relationship between actuality and potentiality can be...
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  • the Stars are Causes" II.4 [12] - "On Matter" II.5 [25] - "On Potentiality and Actuality" II.6 [17] - "On Quality or on Substance" II.7 [37] - "On Complete...
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  • Historical development Élan vital Kinetic energy Orthogenesis Potentiality and actuality Vis-viva equation McDonough, Jeffrey K. (2021), "Leibniz's Philosophy...
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  • the most significant and influential forces in modern Western society. Aristotle used the principles of potentiality and actuality to analyze causality...
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  • all properties are essential (and no property is an accident). Potentiality and actuality Essence Hypostasis (philosophy and religion) Indeterminism Modal...
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  • lump of flesh", in actuality unborn vivipara are nourished by the umbilical cord. Chapter 8 discusses cross-breeding of species, and the sterility of mules...
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    and attentive to the experience of everyday life. Alternate history Consciousness Extended modal realism Fact Hyperreality Modal realism Potentiality...
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  • Arnim, and J. L. Ackrill. In any case, it is considered a less mature piece than Aristotle's other ethical works, viz. the Nicomachean Ethics and the Eudemian...
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  • Poetica; c. 335 BCE) is the earliest surviving work of Greek dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to solely focus on literary theory...
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  • assertoric propositions, which merely assert that something is (or is not) true, and with problematic propositions, which assert only the possibility of something's...
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    its three meanings (matter, form, and what is composed of both), he shows that the soul must be the first actuality of a natural, organized body. This...
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    works of Aristotle when discussing potentiality and actuality including Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics and On the Soul. The modern concept of...
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    Empiricism (category Internalism and externalism)
    empiricist in a modern sense, but rather based on his theory of potentiality and actuality, and experience of sense perceptions still requires the help of...
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    Aristotelian ethics Corpus Aristotelicum Economics (Oeconomica) Potentiality and actuality Ethics Eudaimonia Eudemian Ethics (Ethica Eudemia) Hexis Intellectual...
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  • sense-perception." In the second chapter, he considers the circumstances of sleep and how the sense organs operate. Finally, in the third chapter he explains how...
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    "exoteric" and the "esoteric". Most scholars have understood this as a distinction between works Aristotle intended for the public (exoteric), and the more...
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