are all my own. The motto to this Excursus is at ibid . S.115/p.96. Back That it is a matter of an ethical impossibility is clearly stated in Infinity and Totality , e.g. in the following passage: "The exceptional presence of the other expresses itself in the fact that it is ethically impossible for me to kill him; he thus signifies the end of my abilities." (S.120/ p.59) Back In later lectures, Heidegger interprets the idea of the good as "das Ermglichende" ("the enabling power"; GA36/37:194). "Das Gute ist die Ermchtigung des Seins und der Unverborgenheit zu ihrem in sich zusammengehrigen Wesen." ("The good is the empowerment of being and unconcealment to their essencing in which they inherently belong together." Sein und Wahrheit WS 1933/34 GA36/37:200) Back Leibniz's conception of the subject as monad can be taken as exemplary for the casting of human being as subjectivity in the modern, Cartesian age. The 'first draft' of the monad is the "body-soul pentagon" of the early Leibniz from around 1663, a conception he adapted from his teacher, Erhard Weigel, a "Pythagorean" with a proclivity for "geometric schemata". Weigel gave lectures in 1663 on "mechanics, astronomy, gnomonics and fortification", the pentagon being traditionally regarded as the ideal fortification. Laws of motion, the calculation of time from the motion of stars and sun, and military strategy are thus apparent as the subject matter of these lectures. The modern subject is out to calculate the universe. Leibniz wrote down his schema of the body-soul