The Dialectics of Energy
From the Concept to Actuality, from Actuality to Virtuality, from Virtuality to
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20249658 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Marder (0000-0002-2511-3402, Ikerbasque, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 1370 |
| Publication date | 2025-10-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel16111370 |
| OpenAlex | W4415656395 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
I will consider, first, the positive charge of energeia in Aristotle, who identified it with the actuality of the actual. Then, I will pay attention to the negative charge that re-signifies the term, bestowing on it the exact opposite sense of potentiality. Rather than a radical correction of Aristotle, this polarizing modern signification unfolds in the field prepared in, if also rejected by, Greek Antiquity and unblocks the electric current of the concept of energy, a directional flow of charged particles of meaning from the positive to the negative pole. Still, the flow does not just happen by itself: the equivalent of electromotive force (EMF) is a fresh glance at the history of philosophy, not as a field dotted with static monuments to past intellectual achievements, but as an electric, or electromagnetic, semantic field. Only by grasping the conceptual circuitry of energy as a whole is it possible to appreciate the complex relation of this concept to the history of philosophical and theological thought and to the present
Dialectic · Electromotive force · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Giambattista Vico and Joyce · Historical Philosophy and Science
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |