Phenomenological interpretations about “kata syntheken” of logos in Aristotle

Abstract

The paper tries to assume the possible philosophical returns of the fact that the meaning is by convention in Aristotle from the Heidegger´s hermeneutical transformation of phenomenology. Our thesis is that, in the concept of convention that Aristotle handles, some of the appreciations that Heidegger understands by facticity could be amalgamated and that they will try to bend philosophy to life. A life that the Messkirch saw already anticipated by Aristotle in his practical philosophy but also, as we will try to argue, can be traced in how the Stagirite assumed the central role of the political community in determining what “semainein” is.