Energeia
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Energeia is an important Greek technical term in the works of Aristotle. The two components of his coinage indicate something being "in work". One American scholar, Joe Sachs, attempts to translate it literally as a "being at work," although most frequently terms derived from Latin translations like activity and actuality are used. Many translators into English appear to make no effort to find one single English word for energeia in their translations.
At Nicomachean Ethics I.viii.1098b33 the relative importance of activity or being at work is made clear, and the matter is also discussed in Metaphysics VIII-IX. It should be considered that modern translators translate energeia as both “activity” and “actuality” in the sense of something which is more than just potentially existent.
Aristotle also contrasts energeia with dunamis and hexis, in various places. See Eudemian Ethics II.i.1218b and Nicomachean Ethics I.viii.1098b33. And it is sometimes compared to kinesis (movement or perhaps sometimes change). See Metaphysics IX.iii.1047a.
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Energeia (energy) was invoked as the protector of the ephemeral Free State of Fiume (Croatia, 1920-1924) by Italian poet and war hero Gabriele D'Annunzio, who also called it "the tenth Muse" in the constitution he drafted for it [1].pl:Energia (filozofia) ro:Energeia
