again not, “not at just any time at all,”103 only now and then. Being-possible, as “can,” is a being’s distinctive being-there-thus, i.e., a how of its there insofar as it already is—already, i.e., ἐνεργείᾳ. “Is the earth the being-‘able’ of beinghuman? Previously, if γῆ, then already σπέρμα, but perhaps not only then.”104 It must change itself into another “can.” “Γῆ not yet ἀνδριάς, it must first change into being-bronze.”105
How is that from which something changes into . . . , that out of which it becomes other as this and that, which constitutes with being that about which we say: εἶναι—ὃ λέγομεν εἶναι,106 what we address in each case as being-there? It is not the out-of-which of its constituting, the from-where of changes. The statue is not bronze, it is not in being-there from being-bronze; the chest is not in being-there from out of wood, is not τόδε τι. Wood in itself is not at all there in the chest, but the chest is there, πρακτόν, and the chest is “wooden”107 in its being-there. It is not that other as τόδε τι, the wood, but is “that-like,”108 not other, but “other-like”; in the look, appearing of the chest, not the wood, but the being-wooden. The from-out-of-which of the being-here of a being that is there, the from-out-of-which of its constitution, is not itself there, ἐνεργείᾳ, but rather the present is determined for us from the primary look: chest.
κινούμενον, ὡς τὸ ἐκείνινον:109 movement is not a being, but a how of being-there, such that the how of this there is something already present: look. Ἐκείνινον—ἐκεῖνο: the distant, not the nearest there (always the ‘this and there,’ look), with and in this “that,” in the way that this “that-like” is. In the case of that which is moved: to find in movement; the initial, genuine presence: it, what moves itself, “it is mobile.” The movement is not, is never there! Also, no δυνάμει! Cf. E 2: οὐ γὰρ τῶν ὑποκειμένων τι ἡ μεταβολή.110 Perhaps the wood, tree-trunk? That which is moved does not also consist of movement! What, then, is movement? Not a being, but a how of being, and therefore to be determined from there!
Preparation of the determination of the definition of movement. There it shows itself as how of the there, being-present of the world. And if so, then precisely it as how fundamentally with, in order to properly understand the there of the world in its being.
1. Presence: ἐντελεχείᾳ, δυνάμει—ἐνεργείᾳ. 2. Mode of encounter: to show itself as world, λόγος, of all dealings μετὰ λόγου. 3. Not παρά. 4. διχῶς.
From 4, to apprehend the explication of being as possible being-present,
103. Met Θ 7, 1048 b 37: οὐ γὰρ ὁποτεοῦν.
104. Met Θ 7, 1048 b 37 sqq.
105. Met Θ 7, 1049 a 17 sq.: ἡ γῆ οὔπω ἀνδριὰς δυνάμει· μεταβαλοῦσα γὰρ ἔσται χαλκός.
106. Met Θ 7, 1049 a 18.
107. Met Θ 7, 1049 a 19: ξύλινον.
108. Met Θ 7, 1049 a 20: ἐκείνινον.
109. Met Θ 7, 1049 a 33.
110. Phys. Ε 2, 225 b 20 sq.