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Aristotle’s Doctrine on Act

Summary/Abstract: Aristotle’s doctrine on act arose in the context of his metaphysical inquires into being and his solution of a large philosophical problem which troubled his precedors – namely, the problem of change or movement. His discovery of the analogy of being preceded this solution and he consistently transferred it to the term act. Aristotle used two Greek expressions for term act: commonly used term ¦<Xk(g4", and the one he made ¦<Jg8XPg4". His understanding of the term act is inseparable from his understanding of the term potency (*b<":4H), since he sees them as the two basic meanings of being. It is our intention to investigate Aristotle’s complete doctrine of being through critical analysis of the threefold understanding of the act, i.e. act as change, existence and activity. This analysis also aims at showing an adequate usage of the terms ¦<Xk(g4" and ¦<Jg8XPg4" in relation to his other fundamental metaphysical terms such as form and matter, substance and accident. We will stress the dynamical component of Aristotle’s understanding of the act and its precedence in regard to potency.

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