and to understand movement as unified on this ground.
Κινησία: cf. Fragment 586: κινησίας δύο λέγει Ἀριστοτέλης γεγονέναι.111
By the way: the ὀνομάζεσθαι τὴν μεταβολήν.
Addressing and Designating μεταβολή
μᾶλλον γὰρ εἰς ὃ ἢ ἐξ οὗ κινεῖται, ὀνομάζεται ἡ μεταβολή.112 I.e., seen in terms of what? In terms of the within-which, “in which” what is moved alters itself.113 οὔτε γὰρ κινεῖ οὔτε κινεῖται τὸ εἶδος ἢ ὁ τόπος ἢ τὸ τοσόνδε, ἀλλ’ ἔστι κινοῦν καὶ κινούμενον καὶ εἰς ὃ κινεῖται.114 ἡ κίνησις οὐκ ἐν τῷ εἴδει.115
Movement is a how of being, not the being of presence. Presence does not move, but κίνησις is a how of presence, i.e., κίνησις is an ontological determination. Being-moved is a mode of the being-present of determinate beings.
Ἀγορεύειν: on the market, where being-with-one-another is played out each day, to talk in public, such that everyone can hear it, perceptible to everyone. Basic mode of something self-evident. Κατηγορία, κατηγορεῖν a λόγος, exhibiting, and in a distinctive way: “to say something to someone’s face,” that he is this and that, “to accuse.” Κατηγορίαι τῶν ὄντων: modes of saying-something to a being’s face. What? That it is this and so, i.e., to uncover beings in the how of articulated being-in-itself.
Λόγος, λεγόμενον: the how of beings, how they are in themselves, how they can be. Beings: the present beings that are there. Οὐσία: “possessions,” “household,” that which I manipulate, and in manipulation produce again, bring to use. Modes of the being-there in itself of that which is present in the surrounding world. Ζωὴ πρακτική: what is uncovered in being-in as ζωὴ πρακτική—συμφέροντα, ἀγαθά.
Only because the categories, modes of being-there of the beings of the surrounding world, are at hand in the world as world, and because ἀγαθόν is πέρας of πρᾶξις, πρακτὸν κατὰ τὸν καιρόν,116 the modes of being-there are modes of being-conducive, which is determined as constitutive of being-completed.
Because of that an ἀγαθὸν καθόλου makes no sense; it takes away the very being-determination that is constitutive of beings (ἀγαθόν): always is. Ἀγαθόν is not just something unlike “value,” but rather no a priori, ideal being at all; it is what it is, always as this—the καιρός.
Categories as guides:117 not schematically, but they appropriate beforehand the particular concrete content of the how of being-there in question! Not to
111. Fr. 586, 1573 b 28 sq.: ὁ δὲ Ἀριστοτέλης ἐν ταῖς διδασκαλίαις δύο φησὶ γεγονέναι [κινησίας].
112. Phys. Ε 1, 224 b 7 sq.
113. Cf. Phys. Ε 1, 225 a 1 sq.: πᾶσα μεταβολή ἐστιν ἔκ τινος εἴς τι (δηλοῖ δὲ καὶ τοὔνομα· μετ’ ἄλλο γάρ τι καὶ τὸ μὲν πρότερον δηλοῖ, τὸ δ’ ὕστερον).
114. Phys. Ε 1, 224 b 5 sqq.
115. Phys. Ε 1, 224 b 25.
116. Eth. Nic. Γ 1, 1110 a 13 sq.
117. Cf. De an. Α 1, 402 a 11 sqq.