SCIENTIST: I am not able to think along with you that far yet. I am content if an obscurity is removed for me by the insight into the historical character of the relation between ego and object. For when I decided in favor of the methodological type of analysis in the mathematical natural sciences, you said that this view was historiological.
SCHOLAR: You vigorously objected to that statement.
SCIENTIST: Now I see what was meant. Mathematical projection and experiment are based on the relation of the human as ego to the thing as object.
GUIDE: They even constitute this relation and unfold its historical essence.
Scientist: If any examination that focuses on what is historical [142] is called historiological, then the methodological analysis in physics is in fact historiological.
Scholar: Where the concept of the historiological [Historischen] signifies a manner of knowing and is broadly conceived.
Guide: Presumably in the direction of the properly historical [Geschichtliche], which does not consist in the happenings and deeds of the world.
Scholar: Also not in the cultural achievements of the human.
Scientist: But then in what else?
Guide: The historical rests in the open-region and in that which occurs as the open-region, which, sending itself to the human, enregions him into his essence.
Scholar: An essence which we have, however, hardly experienced, assuming that it has not yet fulfilled itself in the rationality of the animal.
Scientist: In such a situation we can only wait upon the essence of the human.
Guide: In releasement, by means of which we belong to the open-region, which still conceals its proper essence.
Scholar: We presage releasement to the open-region as the sought-for essence of thinking.
Guide: When we let ourselves engage in releasement to the open-region, we will non-willing.
Scientist: Releasement, as the releasing of oneself from transcendental representing, is in fact a refraining from the willing of a horizon. This refraining also no longer comes from a willing, unless a trace of [143] willing is required to occasion the letting-oneself-into a belonging to the open-region—a trace which, however, vanishes in the letting-oneself-into, and is completely extinguished in authentic releasement.
Scholar: But how is releasement related to what is not a willing?