For this reason, inceptual thinking is necessary as a confrontation between the first beginning, which is still to be won back, and the other beginning, which is to be unfolded. In this necessity, such thinking compels us to the broadest, most acute, and most constant meditation and prevents all flight from decisions and all ways of avoiding them.
Inceptual thinking seems completely beside the point and useless. And yet, if indeed we are to think here in terms of usefulness, what is more useful than to be rescued into being?
Then what is the beginning, such that it can become the highest of all beings? It is the essential occurrence of being itself, but this beginning can be carried out only as the other beginning, in confrontation with the first. The beginning—grasped primordially—is beyng itself. In accord with it, thinking is more original than representing and judging.
The beginning is beyng itself as event, the concealed sovereignty of the origin of the truth of beings as such. And beyng as the event is the beginning.
Inceptual thinking is:
1. letting beyng protrude into beings out of the silence-bearing utterance of the grasping word. (Building on this mountain range.)
2. the preparation for this act of building through the preparation for the other beginning.
3. setting the other beginning in motion as confrontation with the first beginning in its more original repetition.
4. in itself sigetic, precisely bearing silence in the most explicit meditation.
The other beginning must be brought into effect entirely out of beyng as event and out of the essential occurrence of its truth and of the history of that truth (cf. e.g., the other beginning and its relation to German Idealism).
Inceptual thinking transposes its questioning of the truth of beyng all the way back into the first beginning as the origin of philosophy. Such thinking thereby attains the guarantee of coming from afar in its other beginning and of finding—by mastering its heritage—its highest future constancy and of thereby re-attaining itself in a changed (vs. the first beginning) necessity.
What distinguishes inceptual thinking is its sovereign essence, by which a confrontation in the highest and simplest is first compelled and carried out. Inceptual thinking is sovereign knowledge. A great future must be thought in advance and borne by the one who wishes to go far back—to the first beginning.
The claim of philosophical thinking can never apply to the instantaneous comprehension and concurrence that are common to everyone.