it is in λόγος, always this. When interrogated regarding its being, that which is determined as this or that has a descent from categories; it stems from there. What it is leads back to this stem.
2. τὰ ἔσχατα κατηγορούμενα ἐπὶ τῶν ἀτόμων:121 where beings in their there no longer yield any possible ‘as what,’ the ultimate ‘as what’ of encountering the world. There: to be ever here and now in the present, not generally and nowhere!
3. τὰ γένη.122
4. αἱ διαιρέσεις:123 simply; shattering of beings simply in their possible there, and with that the possible ‘as what,’ the primary, the from where. Every species with concrete content is what it is (color), quale.
5. πτώσεις,124 casus, inflections of λέγειν (of the being-there of beings).
Κατηγορία—κατηγορήματα: having a look, how of being.
Σχήματα τῆς κατηγορίας: ἡ κατηγορίας, the addressing of beings simply in their being.
Γένη τῶν κατηγοριῶν: always its own stem, to not stem from another. “Being,” ὄν, not itself γένος (ὕλη, ὑποκείμενον).125
On §26f
Διχῶς: Turning-oneself in relation to ... , the toward-which doubled, ἀφ’ ἑκατέρον τῶν ἀντικειμένων εἰς τὸ ἀντικείμενον.126 Οὐσία: γένεσις—φθορά. A being that is there, something present, something lying before must be δυνάμει in itself; δυνάμει, i.e., in relation to the how of its being-there, a ‘from ... to ...’ must be grounded in the how of its being. For this δυνάμει ὄν should certainly be ἐνεργείᾳ, should be put to work, and ἐνέργεια the how of the there of a being.
To unfold the explication from there. Κίνησις is the there of the ‘from ... to ...’ as such. A being must be able to be in a certain way from itself. And that it can do so—the ownmost possibility of a being itself—, categorically exhibited, i.e., κίνησις all the more, not παρά.
The categorical ‘to ...’: The being that is there in the how of its being is possible being-‘from ... to ...’ Therefore, εἶδος, appearing as presence {Anwesenheit}, presence in the look, is possible absence—mode of being-present and precisely as follows: of something about which I say: “But it lacks something.” The lack=“to be missing.” To be concerned and “to be missing”—to be wanting: “I
121. Met. Β 3, 998 b 16. Cf. Met. a 2, 994 b 21 sq., Β 3, 999 a 15 sq.
122. Met. Β 3, 998 b 28.
123. An. post. Β 13, 96 b 25.
124. Met. Ν 2, 1089 a 26.
125. Editor’s note: On the topic of the “Categories,” see also the “Supplements” in the appendix.
126. Simplicii in Aristotelis Physicorum libros quatter priores commentarii. Consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae ed. H. Diels. Berlin 1882. 92v 41.