Lexicon
Greek
Greek | Transliteration | English | Explanation |
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ἀκρασία | Akrāsíā | Dissolution | Lack of temperance; inability to restrain oneself in spite of the knowledge of virtue and vice. |
ἀπορία | Aporíā | Paradox | a- (‘without’) + poros (‘passage’). Double-bind; paradox; impossible decision. See black-and-white fallacy. |
δῆμος | Dêmos | People | The people; the collective. |
δοξάζειν | Doxázein | Dogmatizing | Abiding by common sense; the ἐναντίον of θαυμάζειν. |
ἐναντίον | Enantíon | Contrary | One side of an ἐναντιότης: up, good, right, etc. |
ἐναντία | Enantía | Contraries | Plural of ἐναντίον. |
ἐναντιότης | Enantiotēs | Contrariety | A pair of ἐναντία: up and down, good and bad, right and left. |
ἐναντιότητες | Enantiotētes | Contrarieties | Plural of ἐναντιότης. |
ἐναντιοδρομία | Enantíodromia | Enantio- (‘contrary’) + dromos (‘course’); the tendency of ἐναντία to turn into their opposites. Cf. Heraclitus, Hegel, Jung | |
ἰδιώτης | Idiōtēs | Individual | The individual qua individual; the individual apart from the collective. |
λόγος | Lógos | Reason | τὸ ὂν in the form of the truth; the ἐναντίον of μύθος. |
μύθος | Mûthos | Myth | Myth; poetry; literature; the ἐναντίον of λόγος. |
σκοπός | Skopós | Aim | Etymon of scope. |
τέλος | Télos | Purpose | End, fulfillment, purpose. |
τὸ ὂν | Tó ón | Being | The summum genus, highest genus. |
τὸ ὂν ᾗ ὄν | Tó ón êi ón | Being qua being | The theme of metaphysics. |
θαυμάζειν | Thaumázein | Wondering | Astonished wondering at τὸ ὂν ᾗ ὄν. |
(Notice that there is a gap in the table: with what English word can we translate ἐναντιοδρομία? ‘Karma’ seems to have a rather individualistic connotation.)