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