THE CONFRONTATION OF HEIDEGGER WITH THE PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY OF ARISTOTLE

Abstract

Since the beginning of the academic activities of Heidegger,one perceives the radical renovation of the philosophy. Heidegger proposes a philosophic thinking that departs from the world of life, from a world that is in the historical and temporal happening. However, in order that his proposal comes to happen, Heidegger goes back to the Greeks, especially to Aristotle, where he himself is going to arrogate in a first moment, so that he can then confront himself with the practical philosophy of Aristotle. In analysing the confrontation, one perceives that the parting point of the young Heidegger is the question about the meaning of life. In a second moment this very question will be what will make the young Heidegger ask himself about the meaning of being. The phenomenological interpretations of the practical philosophy of Aristotle make it possible to the young Heidegger to access life phenomenologically. Therefore, philosophy must do with the fact life, of the experience of the Dasein. In other words, the young Heidegger proposes a new conception of philosophy, a new science that has as background the analysis of the phenomenon of human life.