The Dialectic of Essence by Silverman Allan;

Author:Silverman, Allan;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009-03-10T16:00:00+00:00

So then, it seems, the reciprocal antithesis of the nature of a part of the Different and the nature of what is,23 is no less being (ousia)—if it is permissible to say such a thing—than that which is itself, signifying not the opposite to that, but this much only, other than that.

The text does not admit of a definitive interpretation. The first element of the opposition is relatively uncontroversial: it is a part of the Different. Whether one translates “nature of the part . . .” or “part of the nature . . .largely reflects one’s view of the second element. One question is whether it is appropriate to speak of the “parts of Being,” given that we have not explicitly confronted the locution elsewhere. A part of Being would be any Form. A second question is whether “the nature of Being” or the alternatives “part of the nature of Being,” “nature of a part of Being,” refers to Being itself. The italicized words, especially , seem to say as much. After the first declaration that they have found the long sought after not-being, the second summary again seems to mention that part of the Different is set against Being:

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