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quinta-feira 25 de janeiro de 2024

  

The encounter-character of the world for the life of animals is the ἡδύ and the λυπηρóν; its encounter-character for the being of human beings is the character of the beneficial and the harmful, taken together: what is conducive and what is good. If one follows this demarcation through, one must remember that the determinate being-possibilities that animals reach are, as Aristotle  ’s De Anima shows in its investigation of the being-characters of the living, not simply situated beside those of humans. Rather, like all possibilities that animals possess, they are also there in humans; not lying beside each other, but determined by the οὐσία of humans, their mode of being in the world, so that the character of the ἡδονή undergoes a fully determinate modification, in accordance with the mode of being of human beings in the world. Here, however, Aristotle makes use of the opposition between the respective levels of discoveredness in which each way of living moves. [Heidegger  , GA18:53]


In the being of human beings as being-in-the-world, we observe αἴσθησις [EN1 6, 1098 a 2]. Animals perceive the world within definite limits; they are in the world in such a way that they have the surrounding world there; they have a definite orientation in it. Therefore, this being-oriented in the world, this somehow-having-it-explicitly-there, is not proper to human beings as such.
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