Gadamer Ontolojisindeki Köprüleri Yıkmak: Geç Dönem Energeia Kullanımının Oyun ve Organizma Kavramlarıyla Birlikte Düşünülmesi.

Although it is considered that Gadamer has rectified some points in his journey of thought, it is acknowledged that there is a continuity in his general philosophical adventure. There is no explicit statement by him that there is a rupture in his ontology and thought. Nevertheless, among the texts he wrote at different periods of his career, in his voluminous work "Truth and Method" (Wahrheit und Methode) which was written in the early period, he constructs his ontology of art based on the concept of play (Spiel), while in a late period article "Wort und Bild: So wahr so seiend!" ("The Artwork in Word and Image: 'So True, So Full of Being!"") he constructs his ontology depending on the Aristotelian concepts of energeia (activity and actuality) and the related concept of pure energeia (reine energeia). This conceptual difference is not explained by Gadamer directly, and so far as I can see, the meaning of this difference has not been sufficiently investigated in the secondary literature. The purpose of this article is to investigate whether this change is an essential or accidental change. If there is an essential difference between the ontologies of the two works, and if this can be demonstrated, it can be argued that there is a disconnection or inconsistency between the early and late periods in constructing the ontology of the work of art, which generates the central interest of Gadamer's philosophy. To point out this disconnect, I firstly investigated Gadamer's ontology, which can be called the first period ontology focusing on the concept of play, and then, considering its use in Aristotelian philosophy, I looked at how the concept of energeia is used by Gadamer in the context of the being of the work of art in his late period text. As a result of the investigation, it is concluded that there is a disharmony between the conceptual frameworks of the two works, moreover, the concepts of play and energeia-pure energeia as used by Gadamer cannot be parts of the same ontology. As will be explained in the article, this incompatibility is particulary obvious between the concepts of play and pure energeia. The disagreement of the concept of play with energeia proceeds from the fact that the concept of play necessarily implies a distinction between originalpresentation, essence-appearance. Consequently, the article argues that this conceptual shift should be considered as an essential difference, not simply a substitution of one concept for another. In addition to this negative conclusion, which represents the basic question of the enquiry in the article and claims that there is a problem of harmony between Gadamer's early and late ontologies, the article's positive conclusion is a suggestion that the idea of the organism that transcends distinctions within its own unity may have a much closer relationship with the concept of energeia. Therefore, another aim of the article is to show that there is no problem of harmony between the concepts of energeia and organism unlike the relationship between play and energeia. This links Gadamer's use of energeia to the debate of the organism, which began with Kant in the modern period and is placed in a much more fundamental context in Hegel. As a result, Gadamer became closer to Hegel in his last period than ever before, even though they still disagreed on some fundamental issues. To justify this second claim, which aims at constructing a dialogue between the two thinkers, I first briefly addressed on Kant's claims that how we should understand the being of organisms and then I pointed out Hegel's claim that we should regard the being of organisms as constitutive as an outline of life. In doing so, I have tried to manifest the essential differences between Hegel's and Gadamer's thought, rather than simply equating both thinkers. In short, when looking at the use of the concepts of play and energeia, it is possible to say that a disconnect or contradiction can be seen in Gadamer's ontology, and that energeia is a concept that is much closer to the concept of organism than to play. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]