Ways of Being: Potentiality and Actuality in Aristotle's Metaphysics

by Charlotte Witt

Charlotte Witt continues her highly regarded exploration of Aristotle's metaphysics in a book devoted to the ontological distinction between potentiality and actuality. She focuses on Metaphysics book ix, which provides the most sustained discussion of this distinction. Witt rejects the conventional reading of this key text--that Aristotle differentiated between the two concepts solely to further the investigation of substance. Instead, in an original...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801440327
• ISBN13: 9780801440328
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher