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  1. Doing and Being: An Interpretation of Aristotle’s Metaphysics Theta.Jonathan B. Beere - 2009 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press UK.
    Doing and Being confronts the problem of how to understand two central concepts of Aristotle's philosophy: energeia and dunamis. While these terms seem ambiguous between actuality/potentiality and activity/capacity, Aristotle did not intend them to be so. Through a careful and detailed reading of Metaphysics Theta, Beere argues that we can solve the problem by rejecting both "actuality" and "activity" as translations of energeia, and by working out an analogical conception of energeia. This approach enables Beere to discern a hitherto unnoticed (...)
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  • (1 other version)Aristotle's Metaphysics. A Revised text with Introduction and Commentary.W. D. Ross - 1925 - Mind 34 (135):351-361.
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  • Ways of Being: Potentiality and Actuality in Aristotle’s Metaphysics.Charlotte Witt - 2003 - Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
    Aristotle's defense of Dunamis -- Power and potentiality -- Rational and nonrational powers -- The priority of actuality -- Ontological hierarchy, normativity, and gender.
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  • Aristotle Metaphysica.Werner Jaeger (ed.) - 1957 - Clarendon Press.
    The Oxford Classical Texts, or Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, are renowned for their reliability and presentation. The series consists of a text without commentary but with a brief apparatus criticus at the foot of each page. There are now over 100 volumes, representing the greater part of classical Greek and Latin literature.
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  • (1 other version)Aristotle's Physics. A Revised Text with Introduction and Commentary.Harold Cherniss & W. D. Ross - 1937 - Philosophical Review 46 (4):443.
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  • Kinesis vs. Energeia: A much-read passage in (but not of) Aristotle's Metaphysics.Myles F. Burnyeat - 2008 - Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 34:219-291.
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  • The Origins of Aristotle’s Concept of Ένέργεια.Stephen Menn - 1994 - Ancient Philosophy 14 (1):73-114.
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  • Nature, Change, and Agency in Aristotle's Physics: A Philosophical Study.Sarah Waterlow - 1982 - New York: Clarendon Press.
    An investigation into Aristotle's metaphysics of nature as expounded in the Physics. It focuses in particular his conception of change, a concept which is shown to possess a unique metaphysical structure, with implications that should engage the attention of contemporary analysis. First published in hardback in 1982, the book is now available for the first time in paperback. 'A powerful and appealing explanatory scheme which succeeds on the whole in drawing together a great many seemingly disparate elements in the Physics (...)
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  • Substance, being, and energeia.Louis Aryeh Kosman - 1984 - Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 2:121-149.
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  • .Stephen Makin (ed.) - 2006 - Oxford University Press.
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  • Ways of Being: Potentiality and Actuality in Aristotle’s Metaphysics.Charlotte Witt - 2003 - In . Cornell University Press.
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  • Aristotle's notion of potentiality in Metaphysics'.Michael Frede - 1994 - In Theodore Scaltsas, David Owain Maurice Charles & Mary Louise Gill (eds.), Unity, identity, and explanation in Aristotle's metaphysics. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 173--93.
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  • Verbs and the Identity of Actions - a philosophical Exercise in the Interpretation of Aristotle.Terry Penner - 1970 - In Oscar Patrick Wood & George Pitcher (eds.), Ryle a Collection of Critical Essays. Garden City, NY, USA: Anchor Books, Doubleday. pp. 393-460.
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  • (1 other version)Nature, Change and Agency in Aristotle's `Physics', A Philosophical Study.Sarah Waterlow - 1984 - Mind 93 (370):297-300.
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  • Aristotle's Theory of Causal Action in "Physics" III 3.Mary Louise Gill - 1980 - Phronesis 25 (2):129 - 147.
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