Table of Contents

Note on references and method of citation; introduction: metaphysics and the question of being; question of Aristotle; Heidegger's writings on Aristotle; method and outlook of the present study; heidegger's Aristotle-interpretation in contemporary context; Plato and the presocratics. Being and the ousiological reduction: Seinsvergessenheit and everyday; ontology and temporality: the significance of 'presence'; the question of being as the question of Ousia; Ousia and categorial being; the concept of Phusis and Aristotle's ousiological physics; Ousia and presence; ousiological and supra-ousiological philosophy. Truth, language and logic: the true and the seeable; the structure and method of aristotelian philosophy; truth and logos; Seinsdenken and scientific knowledge; the truth of being: Heidegger and the platonic 'to agathon'. Human existence: philosophy and human existence; the question of Praxis; Phronesis and Sophia; existenz, being and attunement; the aristotelian god; religion and the Seinsfrage; time and being.