Essays on Being

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This volume presents a series of essays published by Charles Kahn over a period of forty years, in which he seeks to explicate the ancient Greek concept of Being. He addresses two distinct but intimately related problems. The first is a linguistic problem, which concerns the theory of the Greek verb einai, 'to be', and how to replace the conventional but misleading distinction between copula and existential verb with a more adequate theoretical account.\nThe second is philosophical and historical--how to understand how the concept of Being became the central topic in Greek philosophy from Parmenides to Aristotle. Though in principle the problems are distinct,\nKahn argues that they converge on the veridical use of einai.