Franco Volpi - Heidegger and Aristotle

Translated by Pete Ferreira


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We can say that Heidegger remains within the Aristotelian horizon of the ontological question not only where he reconnects the foundations of modern times with Greek thought, interpreting modern technology as the most radical response to the Greeks on the question of being. He remains substantially bound to this horizon even where his critique of Western philosophy becomes more determined because such criticism is essentially founded only on a difference in intensity when inquiring, just on the different radicalness that the thematization of the relationship of being and time or the introduction of ontological difference imply, but not by the abandonment of the thematic horizon of metaphysical questions, nor by leaving behind ontological issues, which from Aristotle on becomes the original motivation and the central theme of philosophy.

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