would the means necessary for such an action guarantee this transformation?
Still another sovereignty is needed here, one that is concealed and restrained and that for a long time will be sparse and quiet. Here the future ones must be prepared, those who create in being itself new locations out of which a constancy in the strife of earth and world will eventuate again.
Both forms of sovereignty, though fundamentally different, must be willed and simultaneously affirmed by those who know. Here at the same time is a truth in which the essence of beyng is surmised: in beyng there essentially occurs a fissure into the highest uniqueness and the flattest commonality.
26. Philosophy as knowledge
If knowledge as preservation of the truth of what is true (preservation of the essence of truth in Da-sein) distinguishes the future human being (vs. the rational animal of heretofore) and elevates this being to the stewardship of beyng, then the highest knowledge is the one that becomes strong enough to be the origin of a renunciation. For us, renunciation is now of course a matter of weakness and evasion, a suspending of the will; in that sense, renouncing is giving way and abdication.
There is, however, a renunciation that not only does hold fast but even brings forth something through struggle and suffering, that renunciation which arises as the preparation for the refusal, i.e., as the holding fast to this alienation which in such a form essentially occurs as beyng itself, that in-the-midst [Inmitten] with respect to beings and to divinization which grants the open "between" in whose playing field of time-space the sheltering of truth in beings interpenetrates with the absconding and advent of the gods. Knowledge of the refusal (Da-sein as renunciation) unfolds as the long preparation for the decision regarding truth: whether truth again is to become lord of what is true (correct) or is itself to be measured only according to what is true (what comes under truth itself)-in other words, whether truth is not only to remain the goal of technical-practical knowledge (a "value" and an "idea") but instead is to become the grounding of the uprising of the refusal.
This knowledge unfolds as the questioning of beyng that reaches far ahead; the question-worthiness of beyng compels all creating into the plight, erects a world for beings, and rescues what is reliable of the earth.