ἐντελεχές (see νουνέχεια, νουνεχής, “intelligent,” “circumspect,” “cautious,” νοῦν ἔχειν), ἐντελές and ἔχειν: beings in completion, to have this being, to constitute it. To give up the root ending—ες. Ἐντελόμισθοι, Demosthenes, contra Polycl. 50, 18: καὶ ἑτέρους ναύτας ἐντελομίσθους προσέλαβον. οἳ ἐντελῆ τὸν μισθὸν λαμβάνουσιν.95 Diels, [Etymologica, p.]96 203: “Property of completedness”—does not reflect the basic ontological sense: maintainingitself-in-being-completed, to be the being-completed, to genuinely be-there! Τέλος: “end,” not the final addition, but how of the there of a being that is from production. Genuinely there: what is only so, i.e., what was never produced, never had the possibility to not be, but always already there. What is always already thus completed, completed because never made, has no possibility, also does not have the “can” of disappearing.
To see the range of these determinations of movement. Λόγος κινήσεως: look of movement itself as movement, a mode of the being-there of a being, co-said in φύσις. Movements as altering themselves, the there of something self-altering. And altering in the widest sense, not simply as altering of place, altering of site, locomotion. s = c · t: it does not arrive at something like the clarification of movement, but rather approaches the arrangement in the basic relation of clarification of extents; in c the movement of place is already presupposed s/t. It is much more important to clarify the being-altering, altering as how of the being of beings. Later, not movement itself as how of the beingthere of a being, but system of relations of the measurement of movement. Aristotle defined speed in the determination of the faster and slower.
That means: to uncover the types of being-characters that, insofar as they determine beings in their being, characterize it such that it must be regarded as found in movement—ἐμφαινόμενα in λόγος κινήσεως. In the same way that κίνησις τῷ λόγῳ τῆς φύσεως ἐμπεριέχεται.97
1. With movement itself co-given, a series of determinations of beings that must also be investigated, in order to be able to address the full there of every moved thing in its being. They are πάντων κοινά,98 “common to every being [of the aforementioned determination].” ὑστέρα [. . .] ἡ περὶ τῶν ἰδίων θεωρία,99 “later, the research into the particularities of a determinate region of being.” Production in advance, what accrues to something as such—ἀρχαί. But this is not to say that this would, therefore, already also be the most familiar, on the contrary (cf. δεῖ μὴ λανθάνειν ).100
2. ἔστι δή τι,101 “it is, therefore, something manifestly there”: 1. as “pure
95. H. Diels, Etymologica, S. 203.
96. Editor’s note.
97. Themistii in Aristotelis Physica paraphrases 202, 7 sq.
98. Phys. Γ 1, 200 b 22.
99. Phys. Γ 1, 200 b 24 sq.
100. Phys. Γ 1, 200 b 13 sq.
101. Phys. Γ 1, 200 b 26: ἔστι δή τι τὸ μὲν ἐντελεχείᾳ μόνον.