HEIDEGGER'S CONCEPTION OF MEANING IN THE CONTEXT OF ARISTOTLE'S PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT

The aim of this paper is to analyse Martin Heidegger's conception of the meaning of Being against the background of Aristotle's philosophical thought. In Being and Time Heidegger shows how this question of the meaning of Being should be thoroughly worked out in the light of the critique of the traditional ontology. The paper argues that for Heidegger the key thinker exemplifying the content of traditional ontology is Aristotle. Thus Heidegger's philosophical interpretation of the meaning of the temporality of human existence is both reaction to and critique of Aristotelian teleology and ethics.