257. Beyng

Here lie the blocks quarried from the bedrock.
Thinking.
Views of being [Das Meinen des Seins].
Being and its difference from beings.
The projection of beyng.
The inventive thinking of beyng.
The essential occurrence of beyng.
History.
Da-sein.
Language and saying.
"Beings."
The transitional question (Why are there beings at all, and not rather nothing?).
The history of beyng (Überlegungen VII, p. 97ff., Holderlin—Nietzsche). The standpoint of the history of beyng.
The incalculable (Überlegungen VII, p. 90ff.).

258. Philosophy

The determination of the concept of philosophy (and thus also the predetermination of the conceptuality of its concept and of all its concepts) which is essential now, and will be so in the future, is the historical (not historiological) one. "Historical" means here: belonging to the essential occurrence of beyng itself, incorporated into the plight of the truth of beyng, and therefore bound to the necessity of that decision which altogether disposes of both the essence of history and the essential occurrence of history. Accordingly, philosophy is now in the first place preparation for philosophy by way of the construction of the most proximate foyers in whose spatial structure the words of Hölderlin can be heard, be answered by Da-sein, and in this answer be grounded for the language of the future human being. Only thus does the human being set foot on the next protracted passageway to beyng. Above all, the