TWO
FROM THE HISTORY OF BEING
1. Aletheia, barely presencing and not returning to the origin, but rather going forth to mere unconcealedness, comes under the yoke of the idea.
2. Viewed from the arche, the subjugation of aletheia stems from a release of beings to presence thus beginning.
3. The subjugation of aletheia is the preeminence of appearing and showing itself of the idea; the hen as phainotaton.
4. The precedence of the idea brings the ti estin along with the eidos to the position of authoritative Being. Being is primarily whatness. We must consider how whatness as exclusive Being (idea as ontos on) gives more room to being itself, the on nominally conceived, than to the on verbally conceived. The undecidedness of beings and Being in the on, and its ambiguity.
5. The precedence of whatness brings the precedence of beings themselves in what they are. The precedence of beings establishes Being as koinon in terms of the hen. The eminent character of metaphysics is decided. The one as unifying unity becomes authoritative for subsequent determination of Being.
6. As authoritative Being, whatness usurps the realm of Being, namely Being in the primal determination lying before the distinction
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