Mannigfaltigkeit, multiplicité, multiplicidade, multiplicidad, multiple, multiplicity, manifoldness, Vielfalt, variedade, diversidade

In Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Chapter 5, Aristotle briefly resumes his consideration, up to his critical engagement with Plato. He points out that a manifoldness (Mannigfaltigkeit) of concerns (Besorgen) faces us, this manifoldness itself encountered not as an aggregate but in a definite manner, a manifoldness of τέλη among which individual concerns reach their end at each moment. A manifoldness of τέλη appears there with concrete regard to the being-there of human beings (Dasein des Menschen), and ones that are δι’ ἕτερα are also given in a way that they cannot all be τέλεια. Here, not every τέλος is already τέλειον, a genuine end for the being that maintains itself in concern. If individual concerns are τέλη, they are not genuine ends of being-there. Work tools are τέλη alongside of which a definite πρᾶξις reaches its end, but a πρᾶξις in relation to which the ἔργον is παρά. The shoe is the τέλος in the sense that when it is completed, it has its own existence in the world “alongside” (neben) (παρά) the being of the shoemaker as a mode of concern in itself. The shoe has its own existence in the world as τέλος. In the same way, an instrument is the τέλος for the instrument-maker. These τέλη are not themselves τέλεια, but instead have within themselves the character of conduciveness (Beiträglichkeit). The hammer is, precisely, the τέλος of the hammersmith, in the sense that it does not occur in the way a stone does, but rather in such a way that I can hammer a nail with it. This conduciveness, its usability (Verwendbarkeit), constitutes its existence (Dasein). In itself, it is τέλος with respect to its completedness (Fertigkeit), but not τέλειον; it points away from itself toward another mode of concern made possible by it. So, in the world there is a manifoldness of τέλη that are not themselves τέλεια at every moment. (GA18MT:63)

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multiplicité
multiplicity

NT: Multiplicity (Mannigfaltigkeit), 3, 68-69 (of references), 102-103 (of places), 110 (of positions), 164 (of tone data), 203 (of representations), 362 (of places), 417, 429, et passim; of the (equiprimordial) phenomena, 334; Vielerlei of daily occurrences, 389. See also Dispersion; Equiprimordial (BT)