In no way does Heraclitus wish to proclaim that humans are too dumb for this thinking. He also does not wish to claim that the foolishness of the human excludes him from the Λόγος (i.e., from the ἓν πάντα). He would rather like to say that the human, owing to his cleverness, self-interest, hasty solipsism, and self-centered stubbornness turns away from the Λόγος . By passing over the otherwise important additional sentences of the first fragment, we will now add on the second fragment, which states:
διὸ δεὶ ἕπεσθαι τῶι ξυνῶι τοῦ λόγου δ᾽ἐόντος ξυνοῦ ζώουσιν οἱ πολλοὶ ὡς ἰδίαν ἔχοντες φρόνησιν.3
3 Translators’ note: The ‘Supplement’ does not contain Heidegger’s translation of this fragment (i.e., fragment 2).
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