dynamis

dynamis

English

Alternative forms

• dunamis

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis).

Noun

dynamis (uncountable)

1. (Classical philosophy) Potentiality.
   • 1962, William Keith Chambers Guthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy: Aristotle, an encounter, page 125:

     I have tried to explain the sense of dynamis fundamental to Aristotle's philosophy.

   • 1990, Arleen B. Dallery, ‎Charles E. Scott, ‎P. Holley Roberts, Crises in Continental Philosophy

     Heidegger deals in this text with Aristotle's attempt to explicate dynamis and energeia as one of manifold ways in which being is expressed.

   • 2004, Andrew Feenberg, Heidegger and Marcuse: The Catastrophe and Redemption of History

     Like Heidegger's Aristotle, Marcuse argues that being “reveals” itself in the relation of dynamis to energeia.

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• Madisyn