The volumes of the 'Symposium Aristotelicum' have become obligatory reference works for Aristotle studies. In this eighteenth volume a distinguished group of scholars offers a chapter-by-chapter study of the first book of the Metaphysics. Aristotle presents here his philosophical project as a search for wisdom, which is found in the knowledge of the first principles allowing us...(展开全部)

A distinguished group of scholars of ancient philosophy here presents a systematic study of the twelfth book of Aristotle's Metaphysics. Lambda, which can be regarded as a self-standing treatise on substance, has been attracting particular attention in recent years, and was chosen as the focus of the fourteenth Symposium Aristotelicum, from which this volume derives. At the Sym...(展开全部)

余纪元，1964年生，浙江诸暨人。美国布法罗纽约州立大学哲学系教授、古典学系兼职教授，中国人民大学讲座教授，山东大学讲座教授、兼职博士生导师，国际中国哲学学会主席。曾任英国牛津大学Wolfson学院及中国研究所研究员（1994-1997）、美国国家人文学科学中心研究员（2003-2004）。曾获布法罗纽约州立大学教育优秀奖、杰出学者奖。主要研究领域为古希腊哲学、中国古代哲学。近著有The Structure of Beingin Aristotle's Metaphysics（2003），The Ethic of Confucius and Aristotle： Mirrors of Virtue（2007），《（理想国）讲演录》（2008），《亚里士多德伦理学》（2011）等。

Doing and Being confronts the problem of how to understand two central concepts of Aristotle's philosophy: energeia and dunamis. While these terms seem ambiguous between actuality/potentiality and activity/capacity, Aristotle did not intend them to be so. Through a careful and detailed reading of Metaphysics Theta, Beere argues that we can solve the problem by rejecting both "a...(展开全部)

Doing and Being confronts the problem of how to understand two central concepts of Aristotle's philosophy: energeia and dunamis. While these terms seem ambiguous between actuality/potentiality and activity/capacity, Aristotle did not intend them to be so. Through a careful and detailed reading of Metaphysics Theta, Beere argues that we can solve the problem by rejecting both "a...(展开全部)