Homo Abyssus: The Drama of the Question of Being by Ferdinand Ulrich. Translated by D.C. Schindler

LEXICON

Please note: The meaning of fundamental philosophical terms can never be adequately given in a simple definition, in abstraction from all context. The following exposition of terms is meant principally as a heuristic device, both to indicate the original German terms behind the English translations, and more generally to offer the reader initial help with the text, in which the terms and phrases will take on a richer sense and receive the proper qualifications. 

A = A

absolute system (das absolute System)

analogia proportionalitatis and analogia attributionis 

anthropological reduction (die anthropologische Reduktion)

ad-vent (die Zu-kunft)

anti-space and anti-time (Wider-raum und Wider-zeit)

the “beginning” (der “Anfang”)

being present (ontologische Gegen-wart)

bonicity (die Bontät)

cleared/spaced (geräumt)

clinging-to-itself (an-sich-halten)

contradiction (der Widerspruch)

convertibility of being and “nothing” (die selbige Verwendung von Sein un “Nichts”)

crisis of being (die Krisis des Seins)

depotentiation (die Depotenzierung)

distress (of the contradiction) (die Not)

ens

entitative

Er-eignis

esse

essential past (das Ge-wesen)

essentiell (essentiell)

exinanitio (or kenosis) (die Exinanitio)

extro-version/intro-version (exitus/reditus) (Aus-kehr/Ein-kehr)

facticity (die Faktizität)

foregrasp (out into being) (der Vorgriff)

freedom open all the way to the ground (Freiheit-zum-Grunde)

“fullness of time” (die “Fülle der Zeit)

generate/temporalize (zeitigen)

Geschick (or the “self-sending” of being)

gift/task of being (die Auf-Gabe)

guiding pattern (die “Richte”)

hypostasization (die Hypostasierung)

ideal vacillation (ideale Schwebe)

ideality (Idealität)

indifferentiating (die Indifferenzierung)

intellectus agens and intellectus possibilis

intellectus capax entis (die “seinsvernehmende” Vernunft)

in via (unterwegs)

listening obedience (die Hörigkeit)

the “little way” (der “kleine Weg”)

judgment of existence/primal division of being (Seinsurteil, Ur-Teil des Seins)

logicized spirit (der logisierte Geist)

luminous night (Licht-Nacht)

metaphysics as reenactment (die “Metaphysik in der Wiederholung”)

motus

movement into subsistence (Subsistenzbewegung)

movement into finitization (Verendlichungsbewegung)

necessary sense of being (der notwendige Seins-sinn)

need-relieving/neccesary (das “Not-wendige”)

ontological difference (die ontologische Differenz)

ontological moments (die Seinsmomente)

ontological spatiotemporality (ontologische Raumzeitlichkeit)

onto-theo-logy (die Onto-theo-logie)

participation per compositionem

participation per similitudinem

pneumatic reason (pneumatische Vernunft)

posited or positing (gesetzt or die Setzung)

positivity (die Postitivität)

possibilia

potency-for-concrete-existence (Daseinsmöglichkeit)

pseudo-subsistence (pseudo-Subsistenz)

quantitas dimensiva

ratio/intellecuts (Verstand/Vernunft)

reality (Realität)

reflection or reflexivity (die Reflexion)

res

“sameness” (“Selbigkeit”)

self-necessitation (sich-vernötigen)

simplex apprehensio

speculation (die Spekulation)

sublation (Aufhebung)

subsistence (Subsistenz)

substantiell

superessentiality (die Überwesenhaftigkeit)

temptation (die Versuchung)

theologoumenon

thing-of-the-past (das Ge-wesen)

totum potestativum

transnihilation (Durchnichtung)

uncaused character (Nichtverursachtsein)

vacillation of being (or ontological vacillation) (Seinsschwebe)