Galen and the Ontology of Powers.
What, for Galen, are powers, and how are they to be properly individuated? The notion of a power or capacity (dunamis) does a great deal of work in Galen. As in Aristotle, the concept of adunamisis tightly linked with that of anenergeia, but these are not simply logical abstractions. Rather the natu...
| Publicado en: | British Journal for the History of Philosophy Vol. 22; no. 5; pp. 951 - 974 |
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