entelecheia

Greek: "entelecheia" complete reality or perfection of a thing (Aristotle)

The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy 1692

This connects the matter/form distinction to another key Aristotelian distinction, that between potentiality (dunamis) and actuality (entelecheia or energeia).

Aristotle's Metaphysics Cohen, S. Marc 2008

The Arabic version, preserved in the third chapter of the Theology, by contrast says that it is the ˜most excellent philosophers™ who described the soul as an entelecheia (using an Arabic transliteration of the Greek word), and therefore sets out to discover in what sense this doctrine is to be understood.

The Theology of Aristotle Adamson, Peter 2008

Plotinus criticizes Aristotle's doctrine that the soul is a perfection or entelecheia of the body.

The Theology of Aristotle Adamson, Peter 2008

The terms actus and potentia were used by the scholastics to translate Aristotle's energeia or entelecheia, and dynamis.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

In the metaphysical order, the highest determinations of Being are Actuality (entelecheia) and

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

[1806] The Fathers objected to Aristotle's definition of the soul as the entelecheia prote somatos phusikou organikou taking it to imply that the soul had no independent existence but was dissolved with the body.

NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus 1898

Now, Vowels of the jury, mark the evidence of Delta: -- 'He robbed me of _endelecheia_, which he claimed, quite illegally, as _entelecheia_.'

Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 of Samosata Lucian 1895

In that particular change he introduces the concept of actuality (entelecheia) in association with the matter and the form. potentiality, is what a thing is capable of doing, or being acted upon, if it is not prevented from something else.

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

[2528] entelecheia, -- the completion or actuality to which each thing, by virtue of its peculiar nature (or potentiality, dunamis), can arrive.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001