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Platos Sophist (Studies in Continental Thought)

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One of Heidegger's finest! The philosopher comes within reach of ancient Greek thought in Plato, primarily through Book VI of Aristotle's "Nichomachean Ethics," and a scrupulous interpretation of Plato's later dialogue, the "Sophist." The treatise is an important and inimitable interpretation of the Greek thinkers, and the connection of their thought with Heidegger's own "Being and Time." The author adduces the ontological problem of the relation of Being and non-being; the essential correlation between the ancient Greek thinkers and Martin Heidegger's own philosophy. Most of the Greek is defined by the author, or through sense expression and translation. Otherwise, a Greek-English Lexicon is of great value.

Good advice. When reading The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphyics, I had to skip over much of the Greek near the end when he really gets into Aristotle. I did find a Heidegger Greek lexicon online. But I don't understand why the German editors or the English translators don't supply a lexion or simply translated the Greek in parentheses after Heidegger quotes it. Heidegger and his students had a kind of education that no longer exists. They knew Greek. Very, very, very few readers of Heidegger in English do.

If you want to read this book you do need to have an extensive knowledge of the Greek language. If you can't read Greek, don't buy this book! If you can, it is a very interesting lecture course (1924-1925) and interpretive essay by Heidegger. Leiden, Holland