The Being of Categories in Aristotle - Brentano's Solution and Heidegger's Reception

The paper analyses Brentano's early interpretation of the Aristotelian polysemy of being and of the categories and its relationship to Trendelenburg's, Bonitz's and Brandi's views on the same problems. It also analyses the question of the influence of Brentano's dissertation on the young Heidegger. The main thesis is that Brentano and Heidegger have two different approaches to the Aristotelian metaphysics.