This essays focuses on the relationship between the categorial couple Potency and Act, considering the lexical significance of the Greek terminology: dynamis points to being able to feel, to be, to do, and therefore to a condition of passivity, of potential and capability; energheia means working, being in action, functioning, and therefore doesn’t indicate a power resolving in a definitive realization, but rather a dynamic energy. Aristotle’s distinction becomes more complex in Plotinus’ view, because he thinks of the principle not as necessity or as accident, but as free volition, which radiates in the different levels of life. The philosopher Luigi Pareyson (whose centennial celebration happens this year) provides a key to interpret the original source through the category of “inexhaustibility”, which allows us to think of the principle and life as dynamis that is not exhausted in any energheia.

Energia e dinamicità. L’inesauribile vita plotiniana

Alessandra Cislaghi
2018-01-01

Abstract

This essays focuses on the relationship between the categorial couple Potency and Act, considering the lexical significance of the Greek terminology: dynamis points to being able to feel, to be, to do, and therefore to a condition of passivity, of potential and capability; energheia means working, being in action, functioning, and therefore doesn’t indicate a power resolving in a definitive realization, but rather a dynamic energy. Aristotle’s distinction becomes more complex in Plotinus’ view, because he thinks of the principle not as necessity or as accident, but as free volition, which radiates in the different levels of life. The philosopher Luigi Pareyson (whose centennial celebration happens this year) provides a key to interpret the original source through the category of “inexhaustibility”, which allows us to think of the principle and life as dynamis that is not exhausted in any energheia.
2018
Pubblicato
File in questo prodotto:
File Dimensione Formato  
Energia e Dinamicita - Cislaghi.pdf

Accesso chiuso

Descrizione: File articolo con copertine e sommario del fascicolo
Tipologia: Documento in Versione Editoriale
Licenza: Copyright Editore
Dimensione 496.46 kB
Formato Adobe PDF
496.46 kB Adobe PDF   Visualizza/Apri   Richiedi una copia
Pubblicazioni consigliate

I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.

Utilizza questo identificativo per citare o creare un link a questo documento: https://hdl.handle.net/11368/2921820
Citazioni
  • ???jsp.display-item.citation.pmc??? ND
  • Scopus ND
  • ???jsp.display-item.citation.isi??? ND
social impact