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On §28c [393–395]

the there, the being-present of beings is inquired into, of beings that are there with others, and that are δυνατόν in themselves. Κινητόν is in “what is mobile,” ἐνέργεια. Movement is the there of the δυνάμει. But it becomes by way of what is moving. Does the present become? Being-present? The moving of what is moving and the becoming-moved of what is moved is the same there, i.e., movement is not a being, but the how of the being of the world: many things in movement, moving, rest alongside not-moving.


The Threefold Definition of Movement


The being-there of the one teaching, always concretely before one and to one, is the learning of the other. δίδαξις μὲν ἐπιστήμης δόσις, μάθησις δὲ ἐπιστήμης λῆψις [. . .]ἓν δὲ τὸ ἐν ἀμφοῖν τὸ θεώρημα.197

Two definitions of movement:

1. ἐντελέχεια τοῦ δυνάμει, ᾗ τοιοῦτον,198 the being-present of a being in determinate relation to another, specifically such that the first is as something able-to-be “through” the second.

2. ἐντελέχεια τοῦ κινητοῦ, ᾗ κινητόν,199 in the being-there-with of what is moving, there with the moving of the moveable; being-present—the fullness of the δυνάμει—is in itself being-there of what is moving.

ἐντελέχεια [. . .] ἡ τοῦ δυνάμει ποιητικοῦ καὶ παθητικοῦ, ᾗ τοιοῦτον.200 To first lead this, after which it is said: these are two different movements that constitute a third (therefore, movement already presupposed!), but rather determinations of one and the same.


Conceptuality and Movement—Ontology


Fore-having: τί τὸ ὄν; φύσει ὄντα, κινούμενα—holding fast of the ground.

Fore-sight: the being of this being: being-there as world, presence, there, sense of being as such, in which to understand κίνησις as how of being-there—γένος, descent, out-from-where (cf. the below).

Fore-grasp: beings in their being: accordingly, the kind of being-characters that show with themselves beings as what are moved. Ἐνέργεια, ἐντελέχεια, δύναμις the primary world-categories, from them primarily the reality and presence of world: things at rest, disappearing, etc. But also concern, going around, being-present, to make abiding evident. Discoveredness—νοῦς.

The method for cultivating concepts out of contrasts is clear. Tendency toward ground (cf. αἴτιον) and fitness, ἀποφαίνεσθαι, such that what is exhibited is nothing other than εἶδος. This is how it looks. To that end, A and B. Guarantee. Asked in that way, what is it after? Ultimately, that represents new tasks.


197. Themistii in Aristotelis Physica paraphrases 218, 21 sqq.

198. Phys. Γ 1, 201 a 10 sq.: ἡ τοῦ δυνάμει ὄντος ἐντελέχεια, ᾗ τοιοῦτον.

199. Phys. Γ 2, 202 a 7 sq. Cf. 201 a 27 sqq.: ἡ δὲ τοῦ δυνάμει ὄντος ἐντελέχεια [. . .] ἧ κινητόν.

200. Phys. Γ 3, 202 b 25 sqq.


Martin Heidegger (GA 18) Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy

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