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Aristotle and the Priority of Actuality
- Publisher
- de Gruyter
- Copyright
- © 2021 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
- ISSN
- 0003-9101
- eISSN
- 1613-0650
- DOI
- 10.1515/agph-2018-0117
- Publisher site
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Abstract
AbstractAristotle’s Metaphysics Θ.8 argument for the priority of actuality to potentiality poses an immediate interpretive problem: the argument uses two distinct tests for priority, one of which threatens to reverse the results of the other. This paper argues that the standard approach to this passage, according to which one thing is prior to another when it satisfies the ontological independence test from Metaphysics Δ.11, fails to secure the argumentative unity of the passage. It introduces a new, causal account of priority which explains both Aristotle’s claims about priority and the way he argues for them.
Journal
Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie – de Gruyter
Published: Jun 30, 2023