we only need to loosen somewhat our everyday shackling to what is currently obtrusive and incidental, and already we will have explicitly experienced what is astonishing in experience
"This “beings as a whole” is so ungraspable in an inceptual way precisely because it is constantly what is closest and most familiar to us: we always skip over it. Indeed, even further, for the most part we unwittingly misinterpret it and render it unrecognizable. In order to experience that which is, i.e., beings as a whole, we do not need to undertake gymnastically any sort of mysterious contortion of thought and representation. Quite to the contrary, we only need to loosen somewhat our everyday shackling to what is currently obtrusive and incidental—and already we will have explicitly experienced what is astonishing in experience."
This is an effective rendering of Herodotus even though MH is discussing Anaximander.
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Heidegger: The Beginnings of Western Philosophy
"This “beings as a whole” is so ungraspable in an inceptual way precisely because it is constantly what is closest and most familiar to us: we always skip over it. Indeed, even further, for the most part we unwittingly misinterpret it and render it unrecognizable. In order to experience that which is, i.e., beings as a whole, we do not need to undertake gymnastically any sort of mysterious contortion of thought and representation. Quite to the contrary, we only need to loosen somewhat our everyday shackling to what is currently obtrusive and incidental—and already we will have explicitly experienced what is astonishing in experience."
This is an effective rendering of Herodotus even though MH is discussing Anaximander.
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