Homo Abyssus - Lexicon

Homo Abyssus: The Drama of the Question of Being by Ferdinand Ulrich. Translated by D.C. SchindlerLEXICONPlease note: The meaning of fundamental philosophical terms can never be adequately given in a simple definition, in abstraction from all context. The following exposition of terms is meant principally as a heuristic device, both to indicate the original German terms behind the English translations, and more generally to offer the reader initial help with the text, in which the terms and phrases will take on a richer sense and receive the proper qualifications. A = Aabsolute system (das absolute System)analogia proportionalitatis and analogia attributionis anthropological reduction (die anthropologische Reduktion)ad-vent (die Zu-kunft)anti-space and anti-time (Wider-raum und Wider-zeit)the “beginning” (der “Anfang”)being present (ontologische Gegen-wart)bonicity (die Bontät)cleared/spaced (geräumt)clinging-to-itself (an-sich-halten)contradiction (der Widerspruch)convertibility of being and “nothing” (die selbige Verwendung von Sein un “Nichts”)crisis of being (die Krisis des Seins)depotentiation (die Depotenzierung)distress (of the contradiction) (die Not)ensentitativeEr-eignisesseessential past (das Ge-wesen)essentiell (essentiell)exinanitio (or kenosis) (die Exinanitio)extro-version/intro-version (exitus/reditus) (Aus-kehr/Ein-kehr)facticity (die Faktizität)foregrasp (out into being) (der Vorgriff)freedom open all the way to the ground (Freiheit-zum-Grunde)“fullness of time” (die “Fülle der Zeit)generate/temporalize (zeitigen)Geschick (or the “self-sending” of being)gift/task of being (die Auf-Gabe)guiding pattern (die “Richte”)hypostasization (die Hypostasierung)ideal vacillation (ideale Schwebe)ideality (Idealität)indifferentiating (die Indifferenzierung)intellectus agens and intellectus possibilisintellectus capax entis (die “seinsvernehmende” Vernunft)in via (unterwegs)listening obedience (die Hörigkeit)the “little way” (der “kleine Weg”)judgment of existence/primal division of being (Seinsurteil, Ur-Teil des Seins)logicized spirit (der logisierte Geist)luminous night (Licht-Nacht)metaphysics as reenactment (die “Metaphysik in der Wiederholung”)motusmovement into subsistence (Subsistenzbewegung)movement into finitization (Verendlichungsbewegung)necessary sense of being (der notwendige Seins-sinn)need-relieving/neccesary (das “Not-wendige”)ontological difference (die ontologische Differenz)ontological moments (die Seinsmomente)ontological spatiotemporality (ontologische Raumzeitlichkeit)onto-theo-logy (die Onto-theo-logie)participation per compositionemparticipation per similitudinempneumatic reason (pneumatische Vernunft)posited or positing (gesetzt or die Setzung)positivity (die Postitivität)possibiliapotency-for-concrete-existence (Daseinsmöglichkeit)pseudo-subsistence (pseudo-Subsistenz)quantitas dimensivaratio/intellecuts (Verstand/Vernunft)reality (Realität)reflection or reflexivity (die Reflexion)res“sameness” (“Selbigkeit”)self-necessitation (sich-vernötigen)simplex apprehensiospeculation (die Spekulation)sublation (Aufhebung)subsistence (Subsistenz)substantiellsuperessentiality (die Überwesenhaftigkeit)temptation (die Versuchung)theologoumenonthing-of-the-past (das Ge-wesen)totum potestativumtransnihilation (Durchnichtung)uncaused character (Nichtverursachtsein)vacillation of being (or ontological vacillation) (Seinsschwebe)