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Aryeh Kosman

Disciplines:
ancient philosophy

Summary

American philosopher who has written on Aristotle's metaphysics, especially the concepts of actuality, potentiality, and the analysis of substance.

Core Contribution

The Activity of Being: a study of Aristotle's concept of substance as actuality — being is activity, not static existence. Contributed to the interpretation of Aristotle's hylomorphism.

Notable Works & Achievements

The Activity of Being

Historical Influences

Aristotle

Intellectual Lineage

Ancient Philosophy Scholarship

Contemporaries & Peers

Gail Fine

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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