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ESSENCE AND EXISTENCE, TRANSCENDENTALISMAND
PHENOMENALISM:ARISTOTLE'S ANSWERS TO THE
QUESTIONS OF ONTOLOGY
D. WYATT AIKEN
JL HE FIRSTEXHAUSTIVELYscientific,
speculative inquiry into the
notion and nature of essence in the Western philosophical tradition
is found inAristotle's Metaphysics.
In contrast to the earlier Greek
and Plato,
philosophers
change Aristotle
of material
after
the problem
considering
reached the conclusion
is an
or ousia,
phenomena,
immanent
and
quality that forms the identity of each particular
Aristotle's
which
however,
ousia
realism,
concept,
phenomenal
constitutes
is not
of being
that the essential
inseparable
Aristotle,
Following
the theme of this present
of essence
nature
and
that Aristotle
whose
sophical
transcendental.
This
deviated
theoretical
extraneous
addresses
of Sein
presence
the
Seienden,
of process.
world
Heidegger's.1
for
the
This
tradition,
and, more
the essence
of the tran
metaphysic.
der
(3) of the Seinsart
in the
manifests
itself
and
Sein
of course,
terminology,
is strictly
of this
present
acuity
and linguistic
Heidegger,
Was
study,
not
only
because
rigor that
istMetaphysik?
useful
of the
ex
it lends to the
(Frankfurt:
Klostermann
1977).
Review of Metaphysics
Metaphysics
particular
of
problematic
(1) of Sein as such, (2) of the
or Da-sein,
in which
in a philo
But it is a type of language that is especially
visual
1
Cf. Martin
Verlag,
in-the-world,
various
ways
purposes
ceptional
the questions
to
predominantly
the
identity
seeks to contrast
and compare
particularly,
scendental
the ousia of Aristotle's
against
philosophers
Ontology
it
the orientation
was
on
of
inquiry into the
from
propensity
focuses
then,
transcendental
article,
form
some
implied, "it"
imputed to that study, evolving
in the Western
essential
the speculative
phenomenality
initially
milieu
article,
for reasons
and
though,
In
phenomenon.
For though its presence may certainly be speculatively
is not.
identity
the original
or
some-thing
"it"-self
and
45 (September 1991): 29-55. Copyright ?
1991 by the Review of