NEOPLATONIC ORIGINS OF THE ACT OF BEING.(Critical Essay) From: The Review of Metaphysics | Date: December 1, 1999| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1999 Philosophy Education Society, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

IN A WELL-KNOWN ESSAY, Charles Kahn has addressed the question of "why existence does not emerge as a distinct concept in ancient Greek philosophy."(1) The assumption that gives rise to this question--namely, that the Greeks did not distinctly address the concept of existence-may seem puzzling. After all, [GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] is one of the central terms of ancient metaphysics, and the Greeks engaged in endless wrangles over what deserves to be honored by that term and on what grounds the distinction is to be awarded. Aristotle goes so far as to call the [GREEK ...

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