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10 Aristotle Heidegger's Courses from 55 192I to 55 1925 AROUND 1921 ANOTHER major influence entered the horizon of Heidegger's thinking and teaching, namely, an Aristotle who was very different from the Neo-Scholastic Aristotle of Heidegger's student years. From this point onward, there is a more complicated interweaving of Christianity, phenomenology, and Aristotle in the bricolage of Heidegger's texts. We see the intensity of this engagement with Aristotle in the record of Heidegger's courses and publication projects after his two religion courses. Already in 5S 1921, while he was presenting his lecture course on Augustine, he also gave a seminar for "Beginners: In Connection with Aristotle's De anima." Then in W5 1921-22, he gave his first lecture course on Aristotle, which was titled "Phanomenologische Interpretationen zu Aristoteles. Einleitung" (Phenomenological Interpretations with respect to Aristotle: Introduction) (G61). In it he never really did get around to dealing with Aristotle's texts, but rather went through the history of the reception of Aristotle, dealt with the question of what philosophy is, explored the formally indicative nature of philosophical conceptuality, and gave a long preparatory analysis of the categories of being as they show themselves within facticallife. In the same semester, he held the seminar "Phanomenologische Obungen in Anschluss an Husserl, Logische Untersuchungen, II" (Phenomenological Exercises in Connection with Husserl's Logical Investigations, Vol. 2). It probably dealt with Husserl's first investigation on "Expression and Meaning," including the notion of "occasional expressions" and the important concept of indication (Anzeige), which we find Heidegger treating in depth in the first part of his lecture course in this semester. Then came a lecture course in 5S 1922 with the same major title as the lecture course of WS 1921-22, but the different subtitle of "Ontologie und Logik" (Ontology and Logic) (G62). It proceeded by way of translating key terms and phrases from the first book of the Metaphysics and the opening chapters of the Physics (ML 25-26). Simultaneously he held a seminar on Husserl's "Logical Investigations, Vol. 2, Second Investigation." 220 Aristotle 22I Out of his two lecture courses on Aristotle, Heidegger composed in October 1922 a long introduction to a large projected work on Aristotle that had the same major title as his two Aristotle courses and was to have been published in the 1923 issue of Husserl's Jahrbuch (PIA). The introduction, titled "Anzeige der hermeneutischen Situation" (Indication of the Hermeneutical Situation), provided a preparatory ontological analysis of the categories of being found in facticallife, as well as interpretations of the Nicomachean Ethics, Metaphysics, and Physics. The body of the work was to have provided expanded interpretations of Aristotle's texts, but it was never completed even though Heidegger worked on it until 1924 (ML 10). For WS 1922-23, Heidegger scheduled the lecture course "Der Skeptizismus in der antiken Philosophie (Phan. Interp. zu Sextus Empiricus, Hypotyposeon , III)" (Skepticism in Ancient Philosophy [Phenomenological Interpretations with respect to Sextus Empiricus, Hypotyposeon, III]), but he did not hold it, due probably to the extra time needed for his book on Aristotle. In this semester, he gave only two seminars, one with the same major title as his Aristotle book (dealing with Nicomachean Ethics VI, De anima, and Metaphysics VIII) and the other for "Beginners: Husserl's Ideas, Vol. I." Then in SS 1923 he held the lecture course "Ontologie (Hermeneutik der Faktizitat)" (Ontolology [Hermeneutics of Facticity]) (G63), which synthetically dealt with Husserl's phenomenology, Aristotle, and Christian thought in the systematic context of an investigation of being within facticallife. Simultaneously he gave seminars on "Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics" and "Husserl's Logical Investigations , Vol. 2," as well as holding his colloquium with Ebbinghaus on the Lutheran basis of Kant and German Idealism. The first lecture course that Heidegger gave in Marburg in WS 1923-24 bore the title "Einfiihrung in die phanomenologische Forschung" (Introduction in Phenomenological Research); it dealt with a clarification of Husserl's phenomenology via the texts of Aristotle, including De anima II (GI7). He also held still another seminar on "Logical Investigations, Vol. 2, First Investigation ." In SS 1924, we then find a lecture course on "Aristoteles, Rhetorik II" (GI8), along with a seminar for the "Advanced: High-Scholasticism and Aristotle ." In July of the same year, he went before the Protestant theology department in Marburg to deliver his lecture "Der Begriff der Zeit" (The Concept of Time), which contrasted categories of time in science and facticallife (BZ). At the...
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