Being as going back to itself, not "expanding," not "giving itself," the dark principle, the no, contracting, attracting.
"Beings": what takes upon itself to be beings. To be a being: "the existentielle" (Weltalter, I, VIII, p. 212).
Here the following becomes most clear:
1. How everything is thought in terms of what is in being and mos t in being, of the summum ens, theion, akrotaton on.
2. That everywhere only beings are thought as what is in being and Being as what is truly accomplished by what is most in being and accordingly thought by all beings.
3. That Schelling does not lead us away from the position of the on as hypokeimenon (compare the later doctrine of potencies). Schelling thinks metaphysically, onto-theologically, but in the highest completion.
The "core part" (Pp. 31-39) "elucidates" in its way the distinction now clarified so that it leads from beings to this distinction . And indeed :
(1) from God as the highest being, (2) from creation-as process of trans figuration, (3) from man.
God, world, man: Metaphysica specialis.
But here " beings" are already interpreted in the sense of distinction. Thus only that has been found which was already put in, thus a "circle"! Yes , but what kind of circle? What does "put in" mean here? Is that an express view of Mr. Schelling? Or? And in what sense "put in"? The system as the essential jointure of beings as such. Thus we must grasp its unity? How can it be grasped? By "intuition" and construction. With regard to the essence of " construction" the following is essential: (1) the pre-sentation (Vor-gabe) of the Unconditional, (2) that the "distinction" of beingness and beings is at the foundation, also in Schelling's distinction itself, and (3) how from here the essence of all metaphysics becomes visible.
On akrotaton (theion), on koinotaton, on analogon. How the essence of metaphysics is connected with this! (Compare our essay on Nietzsche).5
"Real" Idealism and "Idealism." "Idea" and "Life," "becoming," "Being." The negative as real counter-power.
The inner connection between the "core piece" and the "introduction" of the treatise on freedom. Our goal is the knowledge of the metaphysics of German Idealism gained by a discussion with Schelling's treatise on freedom. Metaphysics asks:
What are "beings as beings"?
What are beings in their Being?
What is the Being of beings?
(Compare Aristotle's statement, Metaphysics VIII, 1028b2 sqq.) To speak