interpreters agreed upon in the discussion,”146 until then, that 2. “not easy to explain otherwise.”147
II. 201 b 18–24: Place in which γένος? What kind of ontological name? Being-characters: “being-otherwise,” “being-unlike,” “not-being.”148
III. 201 b 24–27: αἴτιον in the phenomenon of κίνησις itself for this ontological descendedness: ἀόριστον,149 therefore to the suitable ἀρχαί (ἑτέρα συστοιχία).150
IV. 201 b 27–202 a 3: The αἴτιον for the ἀόριστιον εἶναι,151 and then the account that bears everything, and the genuine determination of κίνησις.
V. 202 a 3–12: “Even that which is moving is in movement,” but only such that what is itself “moveable,”152 what is [to]153 move. Moveable: what is occasionally not in movement and whose ἀκινησία is “rest,”154 i.e., the beingnot-in-movement is something determinate, is not generally standing outside [of]155 the ability-to-be-moved.
On §27b
What was explicated through the earlier categorical determinations: a being that, when seen in this way, need not necessarily be understood as moved. It can be something moved, about which I make the above assertions. But these are not, as such, assertions about a being in movement. With that indicated, which has to meet the demand of the definition of movement, i.e., what it should do; is to bring forth the kind of being-characters that make the there of a being, as found to be in movement, apparent.
Consequences: If these being-characters do not pertain to movement, then the ontology that is aware of the aforementioned basic characters of being as the genuine and only ones, is not just externally pertinent to movement, but insofar as movement is expressed, it shifts at the same time. It only looks this way when movement is conceived categorically, and the tradition of this type of ontology cuts off access to movement in this way, while it also makes a formal systematic possible.
Ἑτερότης, ἀνισότης, μὴ ὄν:
Many are differentiated from others (determined by “being-otherwise”), but as a result, i.e., as this, are not encountered in movement. A person is determined
146. Phys. Γ 2, 201 b 16 sq.: ἐξ ὧν οἱ ἄλλοι περὶ αὐτῆς λέγουσι.
147. Phys. Γ 2, 201 b 17 sq.: μὴ ῥᾴδιον εἶναι διορίσαι ἄλλως αὐτήν.
148. Phys. Γ 2, 201 b 20: ἑτερότητα καὶ ἀνισότητα καὶ τὸ μὴ ὄν.
149. Phys. Γ 2, 201 b 24.
150. Phys. Γ 2, 201 b 25: τῆς δὲ ἑτέρας συστοιχίας αἱ ἀρχαί.
151. Phys. Γ 2, 201 b 28.
152. Phys. Γ 2, 202 a 3 sq.: κινεῖται δὲ καὶ τὸ κινοῦν [. . .], τὸ δυνάμει ὂν κινητόν.
153. Editor’s note.
154. Phys. Γ 2, 202 a 5: τούτῳ ἡ ἀκινησία ἠρεμία.
155. Editor’s note.