DYNAMIS - 200 x 145

The power in things. Aristotle's concept of potentiality.

DOXA - 195 x 140

Opinion, the quasi-knowledge we obtain from the sensible world.

KOSMOS - 165 x 155

Order, Form, Rule - The world or universe according to its perfect order or arrangement.

EIDOS - 140 x 140

The Greek word Plato used to designate his "forms."

SOPHROSYNE - 165 x 155

Temperance, a personal stability and integrity that comes from the harmony of the appetites, passions, and reason.

ARETE -  140 x 140

"excellence of any kind" - moral virtue - the act of living up to one's full potential.

THEORIA - 89 x 170   

Aristotle considered 'theoria' was the noblest form of human activity. It is not research, but the contemplation of that which is eternal and unchanging.

HYLE - 193 x 80

Aristotle’s word for "prime matter".

DIAMON - 165 x 155

For Socrates it meant  "conscience," the voice within.

ATOMA - 225 x 120

Indivisible. Democritus concept of the basic units of the world.

AISTHESIS - 185 x 119

Sensation, the sensible.

OUSIA - 195 x 95

Aristotle's basic words for substance or fundamental being.

HEIROS - 195 x 95

The revelation of the sacred.

NOESIS - 195 x 95

Intellect to intellection. Anaxagoras’ cosmic mind.

DIANOIA - 195 x 95

For Plato it is that faculty that allows the mind to connect mathematical forms to geometrical and numerical figures in the world of appearance.

PHILEIN - 195 x 95

Philo, Philein. Love of and to love. First stem of philosophy.

SOPHIA - 195 x 95

Wisdom. Last stem of our word "philosophy".