Abstract

CAZZANELLI, Stefano. The genealogy of the theoretical. heideggerian readings of Husserl and Aristotle. Sig. Fil [online]. 2020, vol.22, n.44, pp.54-79.  Epub Apr 25, 2022. ISSN 1665-1324.

In this paper I want to follow the steps that, according to the early Heidegger, bring to the emergence of the theoretical attitude by means of the transformation of the genuine attitude of our being in the world. In the first part I present some basic aspects of the Heideggerian categories of the pre-theoretical life. In the second one, I expose how this genealogy produces an essential difference with respect to Husserl’s phenomenological framework. In the third one I develop a correspondence between Heidegger’s genealogy of the theoretical and the one contained in the first book of Aristotle’s Metaphysics. In the conclusion, I explain why according to Heidegger the Aristotelian prejudice about movement is the origin of the absolutization of the theoretical that lasts along the history of philosophy up to the present.

Keywords : Heidegger; motivation; facticity; pretheoretical life; theoretical attitude.