words Greek in Being and Time, 7: "The Phenomenological Method of Investigation" This is a key to the most significant Greek words used by Heidegger in 7 (and a few from 6). To pronounce them, you can use the middle column. The "ai" is pronounced like a long as in "fine"; the "ei" pronounced like a long as in "way." (An is also pronounced like a long .) The most important thing is to recognize the variants of phainomenon (phenomenon), logos/legein (speech, gathering), and altheia (truth, disclosedness). This chapter is the only place they will be so abundant. Greek Word
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transliteration zon logon ekon legein ("legayn") phainomenon logos
meaning
animal with speech, reason to speak, say (but see below, p. 58) phenomenon, plural: phenomena multiple meanings. The root of "logic" [reason], the ending -logy traditionally means "science of." Heidegger takes it more literally as "discourse" or "that which makes manifest, reveals." to show itself ("middle-voice" is reflexive) to bring to light; to glow, gleam, shine light being (the participle the of verb to be) beings, "that which is," "whatever is," "things" good (adjective, also can be noun) to make clear revelatory discourse; discourse that brings to light a bringing to light by discourse (phmi=say, speak) speech, sound things which appear, show themselves synthess, a putting together truth, but also unhiddenness, unconcealment to tell the truth or be true (said of a logos, statement) but also, for Heidegger, to unconceal true, unconcealed, unhidden to lie feeling, sensation (the root of aethestic) one's own [things]; what is proper to something to think, conceive; to see with the mind not to understand or perceive; to be ignorant substrate, "underlying s...