concrete experience of being-there as such. The explication of movements not in antithesis [?], but a matter of originally proper “seeing.”158 εἶδος οἴσεται:159 A “look,” an “appearing,” always in accordance with the categories, lead—quite clearly to the fore-having of movement.
οἴσεται εἶδος τὸ κινοῦν:160 a “look,” “self-guiding,” an “appearing”—therein, in there: appearing-thus-and-so.
Chapter 3: κίνησις and κινεῖσθαι, κίνησις: ποίησις—πάθησις,161 how διάστασις and διίστασθαι.162 τὸ ἐνέργειαν εἶναι 163 for κίνησις.
To come to the there and to disappear from it as how of being-there itself (presence, producedness): γένεσις—φθορά, from the not-there into the there; αὔξησις—φθίσις, to arise, more there—less, to diminish; ἀλλοίωσις, to become otherwise in being-constituted, not to increase or to diminish,164 not away; φορά, from one place to another.165
Movement ἀόριστον: ὅταν γὰρ ὁρισθῇ, παύεται (Themistios 211, 12).166 “Being-there”: in its place, to be firmly completed within limits. I set limits, and then movement comes to a stand; I plainly do not have it. To be able to apprehend it in its not-being-firmly-in—place, but as change of place, alteration, it must be characterized in the categories of indeterminacy.
Θεῖναι ἐν ἄλλῳ γένει167—εἰς ταῦτα: ἑτερότης, ἀνισότης, μὴ ὄν. Descent, not to otherwise determine this how of being-there.
What is determined in its being-there by the propounded characteristics needs no beings to be that are moved. Are the above characteristics sufficient to determine a being in its there as a being in movement? If not, then is an ontology that is entirely dependent upon encountering beings externally, to be sure—what is here only meant as—λογία—as self-expressing conceals it, misplaced. With this veiling of λόγος, the analysis of being-there is hindered, movement turns into what—tradition!! And in its effort to be radical, halfmeasures. If a being is thus determined in its there, as Aristotle determines κίνησις, then it is in movement.
In what is this τιθέναι168 grounded? Κίνησις an ἀόριστον.169 Why? Because
158. Phys. Γ 2, 202 a 2: ἰδεῖν.
159. Phys. Γ 2, 202 a 9: εἶδος δὲ ἀεὶ οἴσεται τὸ κινοῦν.
160. Ibid.
161. Phys. Γ 3, 202 a 22 sq.
162. Phys. Γ 3, 202 b 17 sq.
163. Phys. Γ 3, 202 b 21 sq.
164. Editor’s note.
165. Phys. Γ 1, 201 a 12 sqq.
166. Themistii in Aristotelis Physica paraphrases 211, 12.
167. Phys. Γ 2, 201 b 18 sq.: οὔτε γὰρ τὴν κίνησιν καὶ τὴν μεταβολὴν ἐν ἄλλῳ γένει θεῖναι δύναιτ’ ἄν τις.
168. Phys. Γ 2, 201 b 24.
169. Ibid.