Acrasia and Self-Control
A.W. Price
In Kraut, ed., The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Blackwell, 2006

"Aristotle uses not one but a variety of terms to signify what it is fully to think a proposiiton: 'use' (chresthai, 1146b32, 1147a2, a10), 'consider' (traditionally 'contemplate,' theorein, 1146b33-35), 'activate' or 'be active' (energein, 1147a6, a33). All are used in theoretical contexts to signify the actualization of a potentiality or disposition ... (cf. DA II.1 412a10-11, II.5 417a21-b2; Metaphysics V.7 1017a35-b6)." (PRICE, p. 245) [PSA: all of these terms are connected to the activation of a dunamis or, especially, a hexis; consider them in relation to episteme, nous, techne, and arete.]

END