will be taken to express the more precise but somewhat musclebound expression: the already-having-found-itself-affectively-there-ness of There-being.
3. Logos
The third component of disclosedness is less emphasized in SZ than it will become in the later Heidegger, when it will play an essential role in the evolution of foundational thought. Equally fundamental as comprehension and disposition, it is that existential component of There-being by reason of which the latter is capable of bringing to expression that which it comprehends.
How shall we designate this existential? Heidegger's term is Rede, which in purely formal translation would mean "speech," "language," "discourse." But in this case, the word does not mean "language-as-spoken" but that ontological constituent of There-being which renders spoken language possible.110 One could in justice render it by "articulateness," sc. There-being's constitutional capacity to articulate itself, and call spoken language (Sprache) the "articulation" itself. We would prefer to render it still otherwise. It is with Rede that Heidegger translates the Greek λόγος.111 Good English usage permits simple transliteration of the Greek. Since the word λόγος assumes ever increasing importance through the whole evolution of Heidegger, let us use "logos" from the beginning so that we may see the later development in its initial stages.
We know already that Heidegger understands the Greek λόγος to mean originally a process of making-manifest or letting-be-seen. If a third existential component of There-being be called "logos," the reason must be that it lets "something" be seen. What is this "something" ? The author himself is very obscure in this, the least satisfying section, perhaps, in all SZ. The reason is that he himself is still very much in the dark at this point and is groping for some way to express an experience that still defies
110 SZ, pp. 16O-161.
111 SZ, pp. 32, 165. Translation of Rede as "logos'* suggested by Joseph Möller, Existentialphilosophie und Katholische Theologie (Baden Baden: Verlag für Kunst und Wissenschaft, 1952), p. 57.