81. Interplay

The confrontation with the necessity of the other beginning, out of the originary posing of the first beginning.

The guiding disposition: pleasure in the interrogative and reciprocal surpassing of the beginnings.

In this regard, everything concerning the distinction between the guiding question and the basic question; answer to the guiding question and proper unfolding of that question; transition to the basic question (Being and Time).

All the lecture courses on the "history" of philosophy. The decision with regard to all "ontology."

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is of a historical essence and builds the first bridge of the transition—a bridge which, however, thrusts out toward a shore that must first be decided.

Yet the interplay with the history of the thinking of the first beginning is not historiological, additional, or pregiven material for a "new" "system." Instead, it is itself the essential, transformative preparation of the other beginning. Therefore we must direct our historical meditation, perhaps still more inconspicuously and decisively, only to the thinkers belonging to the history of the first beginning so that through the interrogative dialogue with their way of questioning we might unexpectedly plant a questioning that will some day find itself explicitly rooted in another beginning. But this historical meditation, as the interplay of the beginnings which are grounded in themselves and which pertain—in each case differently—to the abyss, already arises in a transitional way out of the other beginning (to grasp this already requires the leap), and therefore such meditation is all too readily subject to the misinterpretation that finds there merely historiological considerations regarding works of thought chosen by arbitrary predilection. This is all the more so since the external form of these historical