dynamis  , δύναμις, potentia

Δύναμις does not   have the sense of the ‘possible’: that which at some time can be there at all. Δύναμις is already the determination of an έντελεχεία ὂν, that is, of a being-that-is-there already. A tree that stands in the forest is έντελεχεία, present there for me as a tree. Or it can also be there as fallen   tree, tree trunk. This tree trunk can be encountered by me in the character of serviceability for . . . , of availability for shipbuilding. The tree trunk has the character of being-serviceable for . . . , of usability for . . . , not in such a way that I thus apprehend it as first, but rather it is the mode of its being. It is encountered such that it is not mere wood, as a thing called wood. The being that is there in the surrounding world has the character of συμφέρον; it refers to something. This character of being-referring in the sense of being-serviceable for . . . determines this being that is there, this trunk, that is there έντελεχεία and together with it as δυνάμει. Δυνάμει-being is a positive   determination of the mode of its there. For a long time, I have been designating this being-character of being-there as meaningfulness. This being-character is the primary one in which the world is encountered. [GA18  :299-300]

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Ἔξις also has the further meaning that is the same as the δύναμις of any being at all. Here, ἔξις has the definite orientation toward the being of human beings. [GA18:185]

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In ἰδέα  , living is characterized as δύναμις, that which is able, and on account of this fact, ὕλη, as co-determining being, contains the corresponding characterization and determination. [GA18:233]

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Os conceitos de δύναμις e ενέργεια, na tradução latina, potentia e actus; na alemã, Vermögen   e Verwirklichung   (poder e realização) ou ainda Möglichkeit e Wirklichkeit (possibilidade e realidade). (GA33  :3; tr. Giachini)

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VIDE: dynamis

δύναμις: «facultad», «capacidad», «potencialidad». [NB  , p. 51 (Aristóteles); GA17  , pp. 10, 26 (Platón), 30, 51; GA19  , pp. 109, 263-266 (δύναμις εὶς), 463-487 (interpretación del fenómeno del conocimiento por medio del concepto de la κοινωνία   [koinonia]: «conocimiento» como κοινωνία de la ψυχή   [psyche] con la οὐσία   [ousia]; ser = δύναμις κοινωνίας), 643; GA22  , pp. 122, 168-169 (δύναμις, ἐνέργεια [energeia]), 170-181, 173, 179-181 (δύναμις, ἐνέργεια, οὐσία), 200.] [LHDF]