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seen. There is a constitutive distance between seeing and what is seen in the unity of the overarching light that illuminates and makes visible.
HEIDEGGER: Here we can draw on Fr. 55: ὅσων ὄψις ἀκοὴ μάθησις, ταῦτα ἐγὼ προτιμέω.
FINK: ὄψις and ἀκοὴ, sight and hearing, are both distance senses. The one is a relationship to the light-space, the other a relationship to the space of sound.
HEIDEGGER: The Diels translation, "Everything of which there is sight, hearing, learning, that do I prefer," is inverted {GA 15: 227} if you equate ὄψις, ἀκοὴ, and μάθησις [learning], and do not understand ὄψις and ἀκοὴ as μάθησις. From this we must say: "Everything of which there is learning from sight and hearing, that do I prefer. What one can see and hear, that gives learning."
FINK: It is thus a matter of μανθάνειν through seeing and hearing. Every other sense also gives learning. However, the learning that sight and hearing give is preferred. Sight as well as hearing are distance senses and as such are characterized by the distantial relationship of grasping and grasped.
HEIDEGGER: ὄψις and ἀκοὴ have an advantage that can be seen from Fr. 55.
FINK: Seeing is a grasping in visual space, hearing a grasping into auditory space. With hearing, we do not so easily see a ζυγόν [yoke] that spans hearing and what is heard, like light, with seeing, spans the eye and what is seen. And nevertheless—so I would think—there is also something here like a ζυγόν. One would have to form here the concept of an original silence that is the same as light with seeing. Every sound breaks the silence and must be understood as silence-breaking. There is also the silence into which we harken, without hearing something determinate. The original silence is a constitutive element forming the distance of the auditory space of hearing.
HEIDEGGER: Perhaps the silence reaches still further into the direction of collection and gathering.
FINK: You are thinking of the ringing of silence.
HEIDEGGER: I believe that we can draw upon Fr. 55 as evidence for your emphasis on the distance sense.
FINK: In contrast to the relationship, determined by distance, of grasping and grasped in the light, or in the brightness, there is another touching on which shows itself in feeling [Tasten]. Here there is an immediate proximity between feeling and what is felt. This proximity is not transmitted through the medium of distance in which the seer and what is seen, or the hearer and what is heard, are set apart from one another. In seeing, the grasping in light is separated from what is grasped. In the unity of the light that surrounds the one who grasps and the grasped, the manifold of πολλά shows up. A distantial distance holds sway be