Greek terms Flashcards
Agathon
Something good / the good
Aisthesis
perception / sensation
Aition/Aitia
culpability / responsbility / cause
Alethia
Truth
Anamnesis
Remembrance / recollection
Andreia
courage
Apatheia
insensibility to suffering / apathy
Apeiron
Unlimited / indefinite
Aporia
lack of passage with no way out / knot / difficulty
Arche
beginning / starting point
Arete
excellence / virtue
Ataraxia
freedom from passion / tranquility of the soul
Autarkeia
self-sufficiency
Dialektike
dialectic - dialogue between people who have different views
Dikaiosune
justice / righteousness
Dike
justice / right order
Doxa
Opinion
Dunamis
capacity / active or passive power or potentiality
Eidos
Appearance / constitutive nature
Einai
Greek
Energia
functioning / activity / act / actualisation / actuality
Entelecheia
state of completion or perfection / actuality
Episteme
true and scientific knowledge
Ergon
work / deed / product / action
Eros
desire / love
Eudaimonia
happiness
Eusebeia
Piety
Genesis
birth / coming into being / becoming
Genos
Kind / genius
Harmonia
A fitting together / harmony
Hedone
pleasure
Horos
boundry / definiiton
Hyle
material / matter
Hypokeimenon
Substratum
Idea
Form, Appearance, Idea
Kalon
Beautiful, good, noble, right
Kathoklou
Universal
Logos
Word / speech / account
Methexis
‘having with’ / participation
Mimesis
Mimicry / imitation
Noesis
The operation of nous / thinking
Noeton
capable of being grasped by the intellect
Nomos
Custom
Nous
Intelligence
On/Onta
beings / that which exist
Ousia
beingness / essence / substance
Pathos
Experience, suffering, emotion, attribute
Peras
limit
Sympatheia
feeling (pathos) with
techne
craft / skill / art
telos
completion / end
theologia
science of the gods
theoria
contemplation / investigation
theos
god / divine being
ti esti
what it is / whatness / formula of what a thing is
tode ti
‘this what’ / this / this something / individual
tyche
Luck / Chance