Aristotle's Metaphysics Θ 1-3

Contents

Translators' Foreword

Introduction

The Aristotelian Question about the Manifold and Oneness of Being

§ 1. The question concerning δύναμις and ἐνέργεια, along with the question of the categories, belongs in the realm of the question about beings

§ 2. The manifold of the being of beings

§ 3. The equation or the differentiation of beings and being. Being as one in Parmenides

§ 4. The manifoldness and unity of being

§ 5. Oneness of being-not as genus but as analogy

§ 6. The questionableness of the analogy of being

Chapter One

Metaphysics Θ 1. The Unity of the Essence of δύναμις κατὰ κίνησις, Force Understood as Movement

§7. Considerations for the movement of the entire treatise 40 on δύναμις and ἐνέργεια

§8. A subgroup of two metaphorical meanings: δύναμις with regard to the geometrical; δυνατόν and ἀδύνατον with regard to assertion

§9. The guiding meaning of δύναμις κατὰ κίνησις

a) Approaches to the phenomenon of force and a rejection of the so-called transference

b) The apparent self-evidence of causality and the Aristotelian essential delimitation of force

§10. The ways of force

a) Bearance and (prior) resistance. Effect as the being of the things of nature (Leibniz)

b) The how which belongs to force

§11. The unity of the force of doing and bearing: the ontological and the ontic concepts of force and their inner adhesion

§12. Force and unforce—the carrying along with of withdrawal. The full guiding meaning

Chapter Two

Metaphysics Θ 2. The Division of Δύναμις κατὰ Κίνησις for the Purpose of Elucidating Its Essence

§13. Concerning λόγος (conversance) and soul. The divisions: "conversant/without conversance" and "besouled/soulless"

§14. The extraordinary relationship of force and conversance in δύναμις μετὰ λόγου, in capability

a) Capability necessarily has a realm and contraries that are in that realm

b) The capability of producing: λόγος as innermost framework

§15. δύναμις κατὰ κίνησις as capability of the striving soul

§16. The inner divisiveness and finitude of δύναμις μετὰ λόγου

Chapter Three

Metaphysics Θ 3. The Actuality of Δύναμις κατὰ Κίνησις or Capability

§17. The position and theme of this chapter and its connection to 137 the thesis of the Megarians

§18. The beginning of Aristotle's confrontation with the Megarians

a) Is the actuality of capability to be found in having or in its enactment?

b) The conflict is grounded in the Greek understanding of actuality

§19. Being in practice as the actuality of capability. The phenomena 156 of practicing and cessation

§20. The actuality of the perceptible and the actuality of the capability of perception

a) The problem of the perceptible and the principle of Protagoras

b) The practicing and not-practicing of perception

§21. The conclusion of the confrontation: the Megarians miss the movement of transition which belongs to a capability

§22. Ἐνέργεια κατὰ κίνησις. The actuality of being capable is co-determined by its essence — to this essence, moreover, belongs its actuality

Editor's Epilogue

Glossary of German words

Glossary of Greek words

Aristotle's Metaphysics Θ 1-3: on the essence and actuality of force (GA 33) [GA App]

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