Heidegger and Aristotle: The Twofoldness of Being

Contents

contents Acknowledgments ix Preface xi Chapter 1 Martin Heidegger’s Relationship to Aristotle 1 Heidegger’s Phenomenological Reading of Aristotle What It Means to Read Aristotle as a Phenomenologist The Lost Manuscript: An Introduction to Heidegger’s Interpretation of Aristotle Chapter 2 The Doubling of Phusis: Aristotle’s View of Nature 21 The Meaning of Phusis Heidegger’s Ontological Interpretation of Movement in Aristotle’s Philosophy The Phenomenology of Seeing and the Recognition of Movement as the Being of Beings The Meaning of Cause in Natural Beings: Heidegger’s Rejection of Agent Causality Ontological Movement and the Constancy of Beings Phusis as the Granting of Place: Change and the Place of Beings The Complex Relationship of Phusis and Techn¯e The Horizon for Understanding Phusis: The Meaning of Ousia Chapter 3 The Destructuring of the Tradition 57 Aristotle’s Confrontation with Antiphon Elemental Being (Stoicheia): Aristotle’s Conception of Ontological Difference The Meaning of Eternal (Aidion) and Its Relation to Limit (Peras) The Necessity Belonging to Beings (Anangk¯e) and the Possibility of Violence The Law of Non-Contradiction viii contents • The Difference Between Being and Beings The Method of Aristotle’s Thought The Path of Aristotle’s Thought: The Twofoldness of Phusis Aristotle’s Hylomorphic Theory The Way of Logos in the Discovery of Phusis Genesis and Ster¯esis: The Negation at the Heart of Being Chapter 4 The Force of Being 110 Aristotle’s Resolution of the Aporia of Early Greek Philosophy The Rejection of the Categorial Sense of Being as the Framework for Understanding of Being as Force The Non-Categorial Meaning of Logos in Connection with Being as Dunamis: Force in Relationship to Production Aristotle’s Confrontation with the Megarians: The Way of Being-Present of Force The Connection Between Force and Perception: The Capability of Disclosing Beings as Such Chapter 5 Heidegger and Aristotle: An Ontology of Human Dasein 138 Dasein and the Question of Practical Life Sein und Zeit and the Ethics of Aristotle Plato’s Dialectical Philosophy and Aristotle’s Recovery of Nous: The Problem of Rhetoric and the Limits of Logos The Ontological Status of Dialectic Plato’s Negative Account of Rhetoric in the Gorgias Plato’s Positive Account of Rhetoric in the Phaedrus The Sophist Course: Aristotle’s Recovery of Truth after Plato The 1925–1926 Logik Course: Aristotle’s Twofold Sense of Truth Conclusion 188 Notes 191 Bibliography 203 Index 209 ...