Heidegger, Martin - Aristotle's Metaphysics (Indiana, 1995)

Martin

ARISTOTLE'S

METAPHYSICS 9 1-3

On the Essence ll1lll Actuality of Ftm:e

Studies in Continental Thought John Sallis, general editor

Consulting Editors Robert Bernasconi Rudolf Bernet John D. Caputo David Carr Edward S. Casey Hubert L. Dreyfus Don lhde David Farrell Krell Lenore Langsdorf Alphonso Lingis

William L. McBride J.N. Mohanty Mary Rawlinson Tom Rockmore Calvin 0. Schrag Charles E. Scott Thomas Sheehan Robert Sokolowski Bruce W. Wilshire David Wood

Martin Heidegger

Aristotle's Metaphysics 9 1-3 On the Essence and Actuality of Force

Translated by

Walter Brogao and Peter Wamek

Indiana University Press Bloomington & Indianapolis

Published in German as Aristoteles, Metaphysik 9 1-3: Von Wesen und Wirklichkeit der Kraft. 10 1981 by Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main. Second edition 10 1990. © 1995 by Indiana University Press All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses' Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Manufactured in the United States of America Ubrary of Congrea Cataloging-In-Publicatioa Data Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 [Aristoteles, Metaphysik, Theta 1-3. English) Aristotle's Metaphysics [theta]l-3: on the essence and actuality of force I Martin Heidegger; translated by Walter Brogan and Peter Wamek. p. em. - (Studies in Continental thought) Includes English version of Heidegger's German translation of the Metaphysics, Book 9. ISBN 0-253-32910-8 (alk. paper) I. Aristotle. Metaphysics. Book 9. 2. One (The One in philosophy) I. Aristotle. Metaphysics. Book 9, 1-3. English. II. Title. III. Series. B434.H4513 1995 II O--dc20 95-834 I 2 3 4 5 00 99 98 97 96 95

Contents Translators' Foreword

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Introduction The Aristotelian Question about the Manifold and Oneness of Being § I. The question concerning Wva1-w; and tvtpyEta, along with the

§ 2. § 3.

§ 4. § 5. § 6.

question of the categories, belongs in the realm of the question about beings The manifold of the being of beings 8 The equation or the differentiation of beings and being. Being as 14 one in Pannenides The manifoldness and unity of being 21 Oneness of being-not as genus but as analogy 27 The questionableness of the analogy of being 34

Chapter One Metaphysics 8 1. The Unity of the Essence of .iUVQI-1\l; Katci KlVllGlV, Force Understood as Movement ~o:_ Q_+Q · 1..: i··· e~ Considerations for the movement of the entire treatise on 6'6VQI-lt~ and tvtpyEta A subgroup of two metaphorical meanings: Wva,.lt; with regard to the geometrical; &vat6v and clSUvatov with regard to assertion The guiding meaning of 6'6VQI-lt~ Katci IC{Vllmv a) Approaches to the phenomenon of force and a rejection of the sCK:alled transference b) The apparent self-evidence of causality and the Aristotelian essential delimitation of force The ways of force a) Bearance and (prior) resistance. Effect as the being of the things of nature ( Leibniz)

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Contents b) The how which belongs to force

§II. The unity of the force of doing and bearing: the ontological

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and the on tic concepts of force and their inner adhesion § 12. Force and unforce-the carrying along with of withdrawal. The full guiding meaning

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Chapter Two Metaphysics 9 2. The Division of ~UVCXJ.l~ Ka'ta K(Vll01V for the Purpose of Elucidating Its Essence

§ 13. Concerning Myoc; (conversance) and soul. The divisions: "conversant/without conversance" and "besouled/souUess" § 14. The extraordinary relationship of force and conversance in OOVCXJ.ltc; yap Af)'Etat [tel axfiJ.lata til