Antoine Pageau-st-hilaire

The Time of Activity?

This article reexamines the Aristotelian notion of καιρός in light of a puzzling passage of the Prior Analytics in which Aristotle both denies that καιρός is the right or needed time (χρόνος δέων) and affirms that there is καιρός for God. I argue that we can make sense of this passage if we read the χρόνος-καιρός disti...