ABSTRACT: The discussion of Heidegger's destructive retrieve of Aristotle has been
intensified in recent years by the publication of Heidegger's courses in the ye
ars surrounding his magnum opus. Heidegger's explicit commentary on Aristotle in these courses permits one to read Being and Time with Aristotle's Nicomachean E thics and Metaphysics. My paper analyzes a network of differences between the tw o thinkers, focusing on the relationship between theory and praxis. From Aristot le to Heidegger, there is: (1) a shift from the priority of actuality to the pri ority of possibility. This shift, I argue, is itself the metaphysical ground of: (2) a shift from the priority of theory to the priority of praxis. This shift i s seen most clearly in the way in which (3) Heidegger's notion of Theorie is a m odification of his poesis. The temporal ground of the reversal is seen in (4) Hei degger's notion of transcendence towards the world, and not towards an eternal b eing.