PUISSANCE ET ACTE CHEZ AVERROÈS : ENTRE ONTOLOGIE ET THÉOLOGIE
POWER AND ACT IN AVERROES: BETWEEN ONTOLOGY AND THEOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: The present paper aims at presenting Averroes’ doctrine of act and potency in the framework of his general conception of metaphysics as a science. By tracing the origins of his doctrine back to Alexander of Aphrodisias, it shows that Averroes conceives act and potency as concomitant attributes of being qua being and as terms πρὸς ἕν and ἀφ’ ἑνός. According to this reading, the study of these two notions, considered as such, constitutes an essential step in Averroes’ metaphysical project, whose ultimate goal is to account for the essence of the first of all forms: God.

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