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65. Be-ing and Power*
According to the conventional estimation, what in the highest sense "is", is a being as actual. What supremely counts is "actuality" in the sense of extantness of the effective; effectiveness and nothing else. Actuality translates — not merely in language — actus and actio, which translation on the other hand has claimed ἐνέργεια by misconstruing it. (The misinterpretation of ἐνέργεια conceives it in view of "energy" understood as the power of enactment and actio, whereas ἐνέργεια means presencing in "work" and as work, that is, presencing in what is produced and is constant and permanent in such produced things. The Latinate agere and actus are not at all capable of naming this presencing, which shows that the Romanization of ἐνέργεια is a completely uprooting re-interpretation.)''
Actus purus: ἐνέργεια seen in view of action, in view of actualization, of providing, (a) activity: creative prowess (in movement), (b) effectiveness: (success) producing.
That which is of the nature of object for the producing comportment [is a being]. [Hence] the veering into ποιεῖν taken in the rough sense of the mere enactment of making. Objectness as objectivity instead of retreating unto itself as retreating unto constancy and presence. From here on only one step to what is capable of effect and is capable of being effective (power - will to power) will as power.
* Being as power - power as success and effectiveness: the true; thereupon, being and beings and non-beings.
'' Cf. 76. A Being as "the Actual" (Being and Actuality) .