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essence is itself conditioned by the essence of "standing together" (section 16): that standing together presences at all, that Being presences as hen and not nothing.

Together—para.

Stand: place, posit, ponere; sistere: Sistence, Position.

Standing-there—stasis.

Appearance—eidos, idea.

But everything already in the presence, ousia, of the ego cogito cogitationes.



BEING—OBJECTIVITY (WILL)


Since the fifteenth century, the word, "object" has had the meaning of: opposition.

For Luther, object means:


the opposed "status":
the Jewish status and the Christian status:
"to adopt the opposing status."


Since the eighteenth century, the word has been taken as the translation of obiectum. A quarrel begins as to whether one should say ob-ject or ob-stacle.

Ob-ject and representation: re-praesentare.

For a carpenter the wood is the object, that is, "what he works against"—when he functions as cause.

With regard to the ontic-ontological distinction of beings and Being, what is objective is that in the object which has color, extension, etc.; what is objective: what constitutes its standing against as such.



BEING AS OBJECTIVITy—BEING AND THINKING—UNITY AND THE HEN


How does objectivity take on the character of constituting the essence of beings as such?


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Martin Heidegger (GA 6-2) The End of Philosophy