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HEIDEGGER: Let us look back to the theme of the last seminar.
PARTICIPANT: In passage through the fragments in which τὰ πάντα is mentioned, we attempted to view the respects in which the phrase τὰ πάντα is spoken by Heraclitus. These respects are the reference of πάντα to λόγος, to strife, to war as father and king of πάντα, to the unifying ἕν, to κόσμος, to the exchange of fire, to σοφόν, to κεχωρισμένον, to the seasons, moreover, to the human comportment of discerning cognizance, to the preference for one rather than all else, to strengthening oneself with what is common to all, and to the different divine and human relation to πάντα.
HEIDEGGER: Have we yet extracted what τὰ πάντα means from these manifold references?
PARTICIPANT: Provisionally, we have interpreted τὰ πάντα as the quintessence of what is individual.
HEIDEGGER: But where do you get the individual from?
PARTICIPANT: In all the fragments, the view is oriented toward the individual, which is taken together in the quintessence, τὰ πάντα.
HEIDEGGER: What does "individual" mean in Greek? {GA 15: 50}
PARTICIPANT: ἔκαστον
HEIDEGGER: In passage through a series of fragments, we have viewed the reference of τὰ πάντα to ἕν and that which belongs to ἕν. But in pursuit of the manifold references in which τὰ πάντα are mentioned, we are still not successful in characterizing more closely the phrase τὰ πάντα. τὰ πάντα are also spoken of as distinguished within themselves. How is that to be understood?
PARTICIPANT: The entirety or πάντα can be addressed as τὸ ὄλον. This entirety is the quintessence of self-distinguishing πάντα.
HEIDEGGER: But what is the quintessence? Doesn't it mean the whole?
PARTICIPANT: The quintessence is that which incloses.
HEIDEGGER: Is there something like an inclosing quintessence with Haraclitus? Obviously not. Quintessence, inclosing, grasping and comprehending is already by itself un-Greek. With Heraclitus, there is no concept. And also with Aristotle, there still are no concepts in the proper sense. When docs the concept arise for the first time?