THE ONTOLOGICAL FOUNDATION OF POSSIBILITY: AN ARISTOTELIAN APPROACH

• Authors: Dvorak P.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article introduces and defends Aristotelian ontological theory of the possible as that which a power (active potency) is capable of bringing about. It regards this conception to be a sort of middle way between Platonic explanation based on the abstract on one hand and the possibility theory ultimately making everything possible into actual on the other. The doctrine defended leads to the conception of necessary being. Combined with other assumptions concerning this being, there arise some interesting issues and the apparent tensions to be resolved. The article outlines some of the discussions related to these problems in medieval and early modern Scholasticism.

Keywords

EN

ARISTOTELIAN ONTOLOGICAL THEORY OF POSSIBLE; NECESSARY BEING

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 72-83
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Dvorak P.

• P. Dvorak, Filozoficky ustav AV CR Praha, Filozoficka fakulta UK Praha, Cyrilometodejska teologicka fakulta UP Olomouc, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07SKAAAA02244705