origin of "art": the beginning of a hidden history of the reticence of an abyssal encounter between gods and humans.
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I. Schinkel's thesis: "With [Bei] the sensibility the Greek people had for leaving behind for posterity all sorts of memorials to their existence and work, there emerged the multifarious artistic activities ..."7
1. With the sensibility: "together with" the sensibility or "from" the sensibility?
2. Is weight placed only on the explanation of the emergence of the multifariousness of art or on the emergence of art itself?
3. Artistic activity: "art" and activity in it or to let the essence of art itself first arise as necessary?
Activity in it, various "grounds," various directions and levels of accounting for the "emergence":
a) ground of the essence (origin of the essence out of the essential occurrence of beyng). Cf. VI below.
b) motives, commissions, imitations.
c) impulses and incentives (needs and drives).
d) conditions (aptitudes, skills).
e) ἀγών ["contest"], self-surpassing, but not for the sake of setting new records; instead, for the sake of δόξα ["glory"].
f) the metaphysical ground of the ἀγών.
4. "Posterity," indeterminate:
a) in the modern historiological sense: the West, historiological formation, "immortalizing."
b) in the Greek sense: for one's own people, but then no "eternity," not so that precisely those who come later (any ones whatever or specifically the West) might have a historiological memory of them, "memorials," but so that the Greeks themselves might keep these things among themselves as their possessions; so the Greeks remain present in their presencing (δόξα), but not "nationalistically"—instead, metaphysically.
II. δόξα and ἰδέα ["outward show"], the Greek sense of glory and praise: to step forth into appearance, i.e., to belong amid the proper beings and to codetermine them (κλέος ["repute"]) and thus to be
7. K. F. Schinkel, Aus Schinkels Nachlass: Reisetagebücher, Briefe, und Aphorismen. Mitgeteilt von. A. v. Wolzogen. Reprint of the edition of 1862. (Mittenwald: 1981), Bd. III, p. 368.—Ed.