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GREEK GLOSSARY Agathon GREEK GLOSSARY agathon ........................................................................ the Good heterotes ..................................................................... difference aisthesis ............................................................ sense perception hoi polloi .................................................................... the crowd aitia, pl. aitiai ................................................ cause, explanation hyle ................................................................................... matter akrasia .................................................................... incontinence hypokeimenon ............................................ underlying substrate aletheia ................................................................................ truth idiopragein ....................................... doing what pertains to one amathia ....................................................................... ignorance kakos ............................................................................... vicious ananke .......................................................................... necessity kath’hauto ...................................................................... in itself anamnesis ................................................................ recollection kathalou ........................................................................ universal apeiron .................................................................. the unlimited kinesis ............................................................................. motion apodeixis .............................................................. demonstration koinonia ........................................................................ blending aporia, pl. aporiai .......................... insoluble puzzle, “dead end” logos, pl. logoi ........................... account, statement; pl. all that arche ......................................................... origin, first principle ............................................. can be stated, language as a whole arete, pl. aretai ............................................... excellence, virtue methexis ................................................................. participation arithmos ......................................................................... number mimesis ........................................................................ imitation ataraxia (Epicurus) ..................... the state of mental equilibrium mythos ................................................................................ story autokinesis .......................................................... self-movement nomos .................................................................................... law chora .................................................................................. space nous ................................................... mind, reason, intelligence chorismos .............................................................. split, division on....................................................................................... Being clinamen (Lucretius) ................................................. the swerve onoma ................................................................................. name dein .................................................................................... right, ousia ................................................. substance, essence, reality dihairesis ..................................................... division, separation paideia ......................................................................... education dikaiosyne ........................................................................ justice parousia ........................................................................ presence doxa, pl. doxai .................................................... belief, opinion peras .................................................................................... limit dyas ............................................................................... the Two phronesis ........................................ prudence, practical wisdom dynamis ......................................................................... potential physei on, pl. physei onta .............. what is by or through nature eidolon, pl. eidola ................................................... copy, image physis ............................................................................... nature eidos, pl. eide ........................................................ form, essence poios ............................................................................. character eikon ................................................................................. image pros hen ................................................................... towards one elenchos ...................................................................... refutation pseudos ............................................................................. falsity empereia ................................................................... experience psyche .................................................................................. soul energeia ........................................................... activity, actuality sophia ............................................................................. wisdom entelecheia ................................................................. fulfillment sophrosyne ............................................................... temperance enhylon eidos ............................ embodied form, form in matter symbebekos ................................................................... accident epagoge ............ induction (as opposed to syllogistic reasoning) symploke ............................................................... interweaving episteme ...................................................... science, knowledge synagoge ..................................................................... collection eristic .......................................................................................... telos ...................................................................... end, goal, aim ergon .......................................................... function, work, deed techne ......................................... craft, art of making something eudaimonia ................................................... human flourishing theos ................................................................... god, the divine euporia .................................. felicitous resolution of a problem ti en einai .................................. the being which it was, essence hedone ........................................................................... pleasure ti esti ............................................................................. what it is hen ................................................................................. the One tode ti ........................................................ the “this something” heteron .......................................................................... different .
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