peras  , πέρας, péras, Grenze  , limite VIDE: finitude

Grenze (“limite, divisa, fronteira, confim ou ponto extremo”) gera dois verbos: (a) grenzen (an), “confinar com”, literal e figurativamente; (b) begrenzen, “restringir, limitar, formar a fronteira de”: por exemplo, uma parede limita a nossa vista, uma pessoa de espírito tacanho e intolerante é limitada (begrenzt), as possibilidades são ilimitadas (unbegrenzt). [DH  ]

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On the basis of this natural way of being in the everyday, arises the characteristic possibility of a peculiar speaking that addresses being-there in its genuine presence, in the character of its πέρας. It addresses it in such a way that being-there is addressed in its limitedness.

This addressing of being-there in its limitedness is a λόγος as ὁρισμός  . For the Greeks, a limiting speaking means an addressing of genuine being-there. That having limits, limitedness, constitutes the genuine there-character, we see in Metaphysics Δ, Chapter 17: πέρας is the έσχατον, “the outermost aspect of what is there at the moment, outside of which, at first, nothing more of the matter encountered is to be found; and within which the whole of the beings encountered are to be seen.” [Met. Δ 17, 1022 a 4 sq.] This character of the πέρας is then determined, without qualification, as εἶδος. The having-of-limits is the genuine “look of a being that has any kind of range.” [Met. Δ 17, 1022 a 6] Πέρας is, however, not   only εἶδος but also τέλος  . [Ibid.] Τέλος means “end” in the sense of “completedness,” not “aim” or even “purpose.” That is to say that completedness is a πέρας such that “movement and action go toward it” [Met. Δ 17, 1022 a 7]—κίνησις   and πρᾶξις  , the being-occupied with something where a movement or action finds its end (no idea   of a purpose!) There are, indeed, beings that have both of these limit-characters. The character of πέρας also has something to do with the οὐ ἕν  εκα, the “for-the-sake-of-which.” [Met. Δ 17, 1022 a 8.] The genuine, ultimate character of being in the εἶδος and τέλος is the character of the πέρας. For recognizing, limit is the having-of-limits only because it is the having-of-limits of the matter, the πρᾶγμα   determined in its limits. [Met. Δ 17, 1022 a 9 sq.] (GA18  :38; GA18MT:28)

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VIDE: peras