then that, and in this manner until the end, μέχρι τοῦ τέλους.” From the how of the look of the completed being in its being anticipated, the working pace, the order and direction of the course of production, are marked out in advance. At the same time, it is thereby said that γένεσις is in itself founded in the τέλος. It has in itself, just as at every moment, its being-possibility in being-completed, so that the how of τέχνη is anticipated, in a peculiar way, through λόγος. ἐπεὶ τοιόνδ’ ἐστὶ τὸ εἶδος τῆς οἰκίας, ἢ τοιόνδ’ ἐστὶν ἡ οἰκία, ὅτι γίνεται οὕτως. ἡ γὰρ γένεσις ἕνεκα τῆς οὐσίας ἐστίν, ἀλλ’ οὐχ ἡ οὐσία ἕνεκα τῆς γενέσεως.285 “Since the look of the house [which should stand there and in such and such a way, in the anticipatory deliberating of the master builder] is of such a sort, then the producing must be of such a sort. For the coming-to-be is on account of the being-present [on account of the present as the being-completed of what is to be produced], and not the present on account of production.”
A short summary in which it becomes clear how the λόγος of τέχνη looks: ἡ δὲ τέχνη λόγος τοῦ ἔργου ὃ ἄνευ τῆς ὕλης ἐστίν.286 “The τέχνη [not producing itself, but rather a kind of ἐπιστήμη as knowing-one’s-way-around with respect to what is to be produced] is a λόγος of what is to be made, of the ἔργον, an addressing that is without ὕλη, without stuff,”287 for example, for a house, an addressing that is without stone, brick, wood. We have already heard that the εἶδος is, precisely, what answers to the addressing, that the εἶδος indicates from out of itself, that a determinately procured material comes into play. Accordingly, λόγος ἄνευ τῆς ὕλης cannot mean that the ὕλη is not addressed at all. Precisely the co-addressing of ὕλη as something entirely determinate belongs to the λόγος. Producing is itself in relation to that toward which τέχνη is ἄνευ τῆς ὕλης. Here, ἄνευ τῆς ὕλης means that it is a deliberating that does not possess in itself the dealing that corresponds to the ὕλη. The primary comportment toward the out-of-which of producing is the engaged producing itself. This producing does not lie within λόγος. This means that λόγος emerges for producing to a certain extent beforehand, and only insofar as it does this is it the indication of the working pace and course of direction itself, bringing production into its proper possibility.
Precisely because being-there means being-completed, means being-produced, every production must be founded in εἶδος. This “appearing” that is anticipated in τέχνη is what determines the being-there-completed in its beingthere, characterizes it in its being-there-as-house. In other words, the beingthere of a being is co-determined in itself by what it is. The Greeks determine being in the sense of being-there fundamentally through what-being, not as a way of being for itself, but rather in the way that Aristotle takes what-being
285. De part. an. Α 1, 640 a 16 sqq.
286. De part. an. Α 1, 640 a 31 sq.
287. Editor’s note: Heidegger’s translation accidentally refers the neuter ὃ to λόγος. For his own correction of this in the subsequent meeting, see p. 226 ff.