Single Idea 11371

[catalogued under 1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 3. Greek-English Lexicon]

Full Idea

To ti en einai: essence, what-it-is-to-be

Gist of Idea

To ti en einai: essence, what-it-is-to-be

Source

PG (Db (lexicon) [c.1001 BCE], 88)


A Reaction

This is Aristotle's main term for what we would now call the 'essence'. It is still not a theory of essence, merely an identification of the target. 'Form' is the nearest we get to his actual theory.