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ENTITY
AND
EXISTENCE
AN
ONTOLOGICAL
INVESTIGATION
OF
ARISTOTLE
AND
HEIDEGGER
by
David
E.
Starr
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Inc.
NEW
YORK
©
1975
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David
E
1940-
Entity
and
existence.
Based
on
the
author’s
thesis,
Boston
University.
Bibliography:
p.
1.
Aristoteles—Ontology.
2.
Heidegger,
Martin,
1889-
—Ontology.
I.
Title.
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD.....................................................................................
i
PREFACE
.....................................................................................
vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS............................................................
xvii
I.
INTRODUCTION:
FINDING
A
FOCUS
FOR
ONTOLOGY ..........................................................................
1
II.
CATEGORIAL
AND
EXISTENTIAL
FOCI:
OUSIA
AND
DASEIN...........................................................
12
A.
The
Ontological
Import
of
Aristotle's
Categories
.......................
12
1.
Ousia
as
the
central
category
................
a.
Ousia
as
prime
referent
..............................................
13
b.
Secondary
ousia
as
primary
meaning
.......................
14
c.
Quality
as
determinant
of
primary
meaning...........................................................................
16
d.
Formal
Conditions
of
predication................................
18
2.
Some
advantages
and
difficulties
in
the
Aristotelian
program
.....................................................
19
a.
The
prima
facie
reasonableness
of
Aristotle’s
position...........................................................................
19
b.
Some
initial
difficulties
in
Aristotle’s
position
...........................................................................20
B.
Heidegger's
Starting
Point
inOntology
..................................
23
1.
The
primacy
of
Dasein.......................................................
23
2.
Dasein’s
existence-structure
...............
28
a.
Existential
extensionality:
worldhood
and
spatiality...........................................................................28
b.
Existential
sociability
....................................................
32
c.
The
fundamental
temporality
of
Dasein......................
36
3.
Fallenness
and
Dasein’s
everyday
waybeing......................
42
C.
Dasein
and
Ousia:
The
Problem
of
Mutual
Reducibility
......................
45
III.
BEING
AND
TIME
IN
ARISTOTLE.......................................
49
A.
The
Problem
........................
49
B.
Aristotle's
Doctrine
of
Essence
..............................................
50
C.
Place
and
Time
........................................................................
58
1.
The
kinetic-material
context
of
the
problem
........................................................................
58
2.
Place
.....................................................................................
60
3.
Time
..........................
62
D.
The
Metaphysical
Consummation
of
Aristotle's
Ontology
........................
71
1.
Final
causality
and
the
problem
of
anthropomorphism
..................
71
a.
The
problem....................................................................
71
b.
Natural
teleology
and
human
purpose..........................75
2.
Mind:
divine
and
human
.................................................
82
a.
The
divine
mind..............................................................
82
b.
The
mind
of
man
..........................................................
85
c.
The
tension
between
the
divinity
of
nous
and
the
humanity
of
man
...................................
92
d.
The
aspiration
beyond
man
........................................99
E.
Critical
and
Transitional
Remarks........................................
103
IV.
TRUTH
AND
ESSENCE
IN
HEIDEGGER’S
THOUGHT
.
.107
A.
Introduction:
The
plan
of
the
Chapter
..............................
107
B.
Meaning
and
Truth
in
Heidegger...........................................
108
1.
Background:
Heidegger
and
Aristotle
..........108
2.
Truth
as
an
existential
.................117
3.
The
dependency
of
other
senses
of
truth
upon
the
existential
.................119
a.
Heidegger’s
theory
of
meaning....................................
120
b.
Truth,
primary
and
derivative....................................
125
C.
Reason
and Worldhood
..................132
1.
Transitional
remarks
.......................................................
132
2.
Reasoning:
some historical
observations
......................
134
3.
Dasein
as
the
contextual
ground
of
reasons
.......141
D.
Heidegger's
Doctrine
of
Historic
Essence
.........151
1.
Geschichtlichkeit...............................................................
152
2.
Essence
.........................158
V. THE
EXPLANATORY
POWER
AND
LIMITATIONS
OF
HEIDEGGER’S
PHILOSOPHY........................................
168
A.
The
Problem
for
the
Chapter
...............168
B.
Heideggerian
Interpretations
of
the
Foundations
of
Western
Thought
...........174
1.
The
problem
for
the
“archaeology ”
of
essence
........................174
2.
Aristotle's
predecessors
.................176
a.
Heraclitus
......................................................................176
b.
Parmenides
..................................................................
178
c.
Plato...............................................................................
187
3.
Aristotle
.........................189
C.
Heidegger's
Transcendence
of
Aristotelian
Thought:
Philosophical
or
Mystical?
..........200
1.
The
problem
of
mysticism
...............200
2.
Heideggerian
“Dark
Sayings":
Content
.........203
3.
Heideggerian
“Dark
Say
ings'':
Fo
rm
..............................
210
4.
The
Limits
of
Heidegger’s
Philosophy
VI.
CONCLUDING
POSTSCRIPT
...........................
216
.................................................
223
NOTES.........................................................................................
245
BIBLIOGRAPHY.........................................................................287
APPENDIX
I:
GREEK-ENGLISH
GLOSSARY
....................
311
APPENDIX
II:
GERMAN-ENGLISH
PAGE
CONCORDANCE
......................................................................315
NAME
INDEX............................................................................
333
TOPIC
INDEX............................................................................
335
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