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Notes

1. This essay is based primarily on Martin Heidegger's 1939 essay “On the Essence and Concept of Phusis in Aristotle's Physics B1.” However, Heidegger wrote extensively on Aristotle in the 1920s and 1930s. For a discussion of some of the more important of these works, see my Heidegger and Aristotle: The Twofoldness of Being (Albany: SUNY Press, 2005). This essay is a synthesis of two of the chapters contained in that book, where a much more detailed and elaborate account of Heidegger's interpretation of phusis is given.

2. Martin Heidegger, “Vom Wesen und Begriff der Phusis,” in Wegmarken, Gesamtausgabe 9 (Frankfurt: Klostermann, 1976) 313; ‘On the Essence and Concept of Phusis in Aristotle's Physics B1,” trans. Thomas Sheehan in Pathmarks (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998) 186.

3. Aristotle, Physics 1, 185a12 ff.; Heidegger, Wegmarken 313/Pathmarks 186.

4. Metaphysics 1, 985b19.

5. Physics 1, 191b30.

6. See Martin Heidegger, Aristotle's Metaphysics Theta 1–3: On the Essence and Actuality of Force, trans. W. Brogan and P. Warnek (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1995).

7. Physics 2, 199b16.

8. Physics 8, 253b9.

9. Heidegger, Wegmarken 316/Pathmarks 189

10. Metaphysics 3, 1003a10.

11. Physics 4, 212a7.

12. Physics 5, 225a1.

13. Physics 6, 235b9–11.

14. Physics 5, 225a25 ff.

15. Physics 5, 225a1.

16. Physics 5, 225a2.

17. Physics 5, 225a12.

18. Physics 5, 230b10–11.

19. Physics 5, 230a12.

20. Heidegger, Wegmarken 358/Pathmarks 220. See Physics 2, 193b8–9.

21. On Generation and Corruption 2, 338b17–18.

22. Heidegger, Wegmarken 363/Pathmarks 224.

23. Martin Heidegger, “Der Spruch des Anaximander,” in Holzwege, Gesamtausgabe 5 (Frankfurt: Klostermann, 1977) 343.

24. Physics 2, 193b19–21.

25. Heidegger, Wegmarken 367/Pathmarks 227.