CHAPTER TWO


Interpretation of the Cultivation of the Concept of κίνησις as a

Radical Grasping of the Interpretedness of Being-There



§25. The Aristotelian Physics as ἀρχή-Research:
Orientation toward the First Two Books



The interpretedness that itself prevails in being-there, where the latter is determined by προαίρεσις, stands under the possibility of being grasped, in the sense that the world is genuinely considered in its being-there, and being-in-the-world can be examined with respect to what it is. In relation to the interpretedness of being-there itself, there is a ἕξις of ἀληθεύειν, a possibility of existing truthfully, implicit in which truthfulness is the interpretedness and transparency of being-there itself. The interpretedness of being-there is conveyed by λόγος: idle chatter, the “way in which one speaks about things,” is authoritative for the world-conception itself. We have attempted to understand why speaking is characterized as διανοεῖσθαι, διαλέγεσθαι: since being-there is determined by ἡδονή, everything is apprehended as this or that, as “conducive to . . . ,” συμφέρον—apprehended in a primary way, not theoretically. The average way of speaking and apprehending is διανοεῖσθαι. Only in contrast to this average speaking (λέγειν τι κατά τινος), can the ἕξις as ἀληθεύειν assert itself. The λόγος καθ’ αὐτό addresses beings “in themselves.” It posits the beings that are there, not in some alien respect, but rather derives from itself the respects in which the beings that are there are to be considered. This λόγος that addresses from itself the beings in their being is the ὁρισμός. According to the basic determinations of being as being-produced and look, it has the following structure: beings are addressed in themselves with respect to that from which they have descended, γένος, and within their descent, they are addressed with respect to what they are, εἶδος. The entire being-context of the γένος and εἶδος is the τὸ τί ἦν εἶναι: τί ἦν = γένος, τὸ εἶναι = εἶδος. Insofar as beings are posited in the respects from which they are determined, research is thereby bound to set forth this from-out-of-which. This from-out-of-which is the ἀρχαί. The ἀρχαί are the basic respects in which concrete being-there is seen in itself and made explicit. Insofar as the ἕξις of ἀληθεύειν is put into effect, this means that


Martin Heidegger (GA 18) Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy

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