Meanings
alternative dunamis
- Classicaluncountablehuman sciencesPotentiality.
I have tried to explain the sense of dynamis fundamental to Aristotle's philosophy.
1962, William Keith Chambers Guthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy: Aristotle, an encounter, page 1252 more examples
Heidegger deals in this text with Aristotle's attempt to explicate dynamis and energeia as one of manifold ways in which being is expressed.
1990, Arleen B. Dallery, Charles E. Scott, P. Holley Roberts, Crises in Continental PhilosophyLike Heidegger's Aristotle, Marcuse argues that being “reveals” itself in the relation of dynamis to energeia.
2004, Andrew Feenberg, Heidegger and Marcuse: The Catastrophe and Redemption of History
Origin
- Ancient Greekδύναμις
- Englishdynamis
Borrowed from Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis).
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