TRUTH AND KNOWING-AWARENESS

inceptually. However, just like the inceptual thinking, the one thinking that counts at the end of metaphysics has its own foundationality and greatness.

Hence, truth can no longer be the "most supreme power" (Wille zur Macht, 8531), although for the will to power it continues to be unavoidable. By contrast, sheltered-concealed within the first beginning, φύσις and ἀλήθεια "are" the same and the unique.

Truth as correctness and stabilization is fostered, valued, revered and wanted because in the midst of beings man as a subject comports himself towards beings and, through all these, he comports himself above all towards himself.

The Will to constancy and presence is even the most sheltered-concealed and the actual ground for the projecting-opening of beings as "becoming" (cf. above G 25 f., and section 92, below, G 395) insofar as becoming is to grant both at once: the continuity of overcoming, and a presencing (of what is to be overcome) - indeed the overcoming of the rigid that stands still so that within this continuity a constancy sways (that of the overcoming) .

[G112] But the will to truth (as correctness) is in this way, of course, not yet grounded, because correctness itself lacks the ground. Ground is the ab-ground of the clearing understood as the glowing en-opening of the 'in-between' of the moment (en-opening of the 'in-the midst' and 'amongst') .

What in the first beginning (φύσις — ἀλήθεια) only arose and appeared as beings in general becomes here in the other beginning the en-owning of the ab-ground of decision.

Now in the other beginning, being no longer holds sway as a being "in itself", but — fundamentally remote from and free of all subjectivity and objectivity — being is the mastery of the stillness of all originary history: the truth of be-ing is the be-ing of truth, and only be-ing is.


38. Truth


Truth — the clearing of be-ing as the refusal that en owns within the intersection of countering and strife — is the be-ing of errancy.

Error in the sense of un-abiding in the clearing arises from out of


1 See Nietzsche's Werke (Großoktavausgabe). Zweite Abteilung. Band XVI, Der Wille zur Macht. Drittes und Viertes Buch. (2nd ed, Leipzig: Kroner) 1922, S. 272.


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Martin Heidegger (GA 66) Mindfulness