ontological-hermeneutical pre-eminence? Because being = being-produced. There = being-present, being-completed, being-here in the now, in a presence; in being-present, being-there-having, abiding with . . .
Abiding, being-in precisely the there of living. A stone does not abide, it happens. But an animal: “It abides” in its heart! Θιγεῖν and ἁφή: primary and primitive being-in. “Dwelling”! Οὐσία, “household”! “In” = “abiding with . . . ,” cf. Grimm!140 Primary hermeneutical category, not at all spatial as to be contained, contained in . . . With-which of abiding!
Until now, not hermeneutically seen: being-in, abiding, presence, beingpresent, disposition (cf. Nicomachean Ethics Κ 3), waiting for something, notthere, to flee in the face of . . . , to go toward . . . , care. Fulfillment of waiting: concern. To take back over-lighting! Κίνησις, ὄν from ποίησις, dealings, and that means primarily the world—not until later did it become a category of nature. Here, initially the indifference of that which is initial.
Παρουσία, οὐσία (cf. φῶς)—basic explication: ἐντελέχεια, δύναμις, ἐνέργεια. With this, Greek ontology first comes into its own. But that means: how, which being-there, always what, which are we? Everything shifts in the direction of this question. Being-there in general experienced as ontological task. One means, one has [to do]141 with consciousness and person and living. Here, everything breaks down. Cf. Jaspers.
Κίνησις a how of the there, the σῴζει τὴν δύναμιν,142 the δυνάμει ὄν, it contains it in the there—to maintain it in being-uncompleted, to allow beingthere. The δυνατόν is ἀτελές,143 and therefore its how of the there is, as this ἀτελές, such that this how of the there “saves,” and that is κίνησις. Completed: is already completed. Ἐνέργεια: the there, the not-yet-completed. Οἰκία: the completed, but not the completed, what is with its end, δυνάμει. Τελειότης related to the how of the there, whose genuineness for δυνάμει is precisely ἐνέργεια. Duration of movement: If this how of the there stops, then the house is there completed—no more movement, no longer in movement.
On §27a
[Physics Γ]144 Chapter 2
Confirmation:
I. [201 b 16–18] :145 Topic: seen together 1. “out of that which the earlier
140. Cf. Artikel “in.” In: Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm. Vierten Bandes zweite Abtheilung. Leipzig 1877, Sp. 2081 ff.
141. Editor’s note.
142. Themistii in Aristotelis Physica paraphrases 205, 22 sq.: κίνησιν λέγω καὶ τελειότητα τῆς δυνάμεως. πᾶσα γὰρ τελειότης σῴζει ὃ τελειοῖ. 213, 1 sq.: ἄλλη δέ ἐστιν ἐνέργεια ἡ τοῦ δυνάμει ὄντος ἐν τῷ πράγματι σῴζουσα αὐτοῦ τὸ δυνάμει.
143. Phys. Γ 1, 201 b 32.
144. Editor’s note.
145. Editor’s note.