Heidegger and Arete

Abstract

The word arete is not found in Being and time, even though it uses a large number of Greek terms. According to the most recent index, the Marbourg lectures that mark the genesis of the 1927 work, do not use it either. Nevertheless, they deal with Greek texts in which the use of the word arete is frequent. Only the 1924 course on Plato's The Sophistuses the word, rarely in its introduction that deals with the Nichomachean Ethics. This paper intends to elucidate this discretion. It is due to a deliberate absorption of ethics into ontology.