multifariousness, an understanding of the there that pushes further will be necessary. The clarification of this basic phenomenon of the there can succeed for its part only if we seek it out in its there.
The guide was the customary meaning of οὐσία: the being that is there in the distinctive sense and the being not in an unspecified presence-at-hand, but the there of the pressing immediacy of everydayness, the everydayness of living, the there in which and on the basis of which living is “eked out.” Thus, the clarification of the there is guided back to an explication of living as being-in (remark on “subjective”!). Although the presentative investigation is thereby grasped in advance, in fact a pre-figuring of the basic character of the sense of the there, and consequently of being, would already be given, specifically on the basis of the characters enumerated.
On §8
On Metaphysics Ζ-Θ—General:
“There results from the λόγοι themselves [investigation41 or λόγος as phenomenon] that something else/different is οὐσία—ἄλλαι οὐσίαι [more than one!]—τὸ τί ἤν εἶναι and ὑποκείμενον.”42
The fundamental methodological (only methodological) priority of οὐσία αἰσθητή.43 Σύνολον: ὑστέρα with respect to the ordering of categorical originariness, δηλή44 “clear,” “transparent,” i.e., in the particulars there is nothing further to be constituted ontologically (Greek). The methodological principles themselves (cf. Jaeger on research maxims).45
Interpretation of the “one”: what is encountered by such a one, what one deals with. “What is familiar initially and for the most part in an average way is often imprecise, unarticulated, not salient, without noticeability and has little or nothing of genuine being-there.”46 The there-ness, presence, effaced, disappeared. The in general, for the most part, initially, not generally there. The particular: what is the same in particularity, τὰ καθ’ ἕκαστα in the characters of particularity, in the character of the “distant,” the “remote.” Toward-what does it first come forth explicitly—in what process?—and seeing? Constitute the being of beings. For, entirely distinct the universal and the specific. Τόδε τι: the what, being-produced in its there.
But lifting/raising from there in such a way that precisely this there can
41. Cf. Met. Ζ 3–4.
42. Met. Η 1, 1042 a 12 sq.: ἄλλας δὲ δὴ συμβαίνες ἐκ τῶν λόγων οὐσίας εἶναι τὸ τί ἦν εἶναι καὶ τὸ ὑποκείνον.
43. Cf. Met. Ζ 3, 1029 a 33 sq.
44. Met. Ζ 3, 1029 b 31 sq.
45. Cf. W. Jaeger, Studien zur Entstehungsgeschichte der Metaphysik des Aristoteles. Berlin 1912, S. Amn.
46. Cf. Met. Ζ 3, 1029 b 8 sqq.: τὰ δ᾿ ἑκδοτοις γνώριμα καὶ πρῶτα πολλάκις ἠρέμα ἐοτὶ γνώριμα καὶ μικρὸν ἢ οὐδὲν ἔχει τοῦ ὄντος.