Plato's Sophist

<p>This volume reconstructs Martin Heidegger's lecture course at the University of Marburg in the winter semester of 1924-25 which was devoted to an interpretation of Plato and Aristotle. Published for the first time in German in 1992 as volume 19 of Heidegger's Collected Works it is a major text not only because of its intrinsic importance as an interpretation of the Greek thinkers but also because of its close complementary relationship to<i> Being and Time </i> composed in the same period. In<i> Plato's </i>Sophist Heidegger approaches Plato through Aristotle devoting the first part of the lectures to an extended commentary on Book VI of the <i>Nichomachean Ethics.</i> In a line-by-line interpretation of Plato's later dialogue the Sophist Heidegger then takes up the relation of Being and non-being the ontological problematic that forms the essential link between Greek philosophy and Heidegger's thought.</p>