ARISTOTLE, HEIDEGGER, AND THE MEGARIANS

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2020-01-01

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Ünlü, Hikmet

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This paper examines Aristotle's analysis of unenacted capacities to show the role they play in his discovery of the concept of actuality. I first argue that Aristotle begins Metaphysics IX by focusing on active and passive capacities, after which I discuss Aristotle's confrontation with the Megarians, the philosophers who maintain that a capacity is present only insofar as it is being enacted. Using Heidegger's interpretation as a guide, I show that Aristotle's rejection of the Megarian position leads him to propose that presence cannot be confined to activity. I also argue that this provides the context for Aristotle to realize that the relation between capacity and activity can be generalized as the relation between two ways of being.

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Aristotle, Heidegger, Capacity, Activity, Potentiality, Actuality

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/53455

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REVUE ROUMAINE DE PHILOSOPHIE

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Department of Philosophy, Article

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H. Ünlü, “ARISTOTLE, HEIDEGGER, AND THE MEGARIANS,” REVUE ROUMAINE DE PHILOSOPHIE, pp. 125–139, 2020, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/53455.