hidden and the scenery of representing and producing beings does not even know this history as a background. Because beginning can be only experienced inceptually, the first beginning and its history only come into the open — but never into the openness that is the public - from out of the other beginning of the history of be-ing.
If philosophy is the thinking of be-ing as an inquiry that thinks ahead into the grounding of the truth of be-ing, then the title "the philosophy of the tragic" says the same thing twice. Given the just-mentioned content of this word "tragic" [G224] philosophy by itself is "tragic". There is here no reason for proceeding from the familiar emotional ways and conceiving of philosophy as "tragic". Considering the fact that this word tragic is burdened by "literary-historical" and "erudite" opinions, it would be better not to use this word. What alludes to the fundamental designation of the beginning (the already decided inclusion of the 'going under', and the already decided "beginning" with this) can also be grasped without this word and held fast in the posture of thinking.
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The History of Be-ing
As a rift that lights up wherein beings can come to a "halt", be-ing, the prime leap (Überlegungen X, 47 ff.) is the enownment of man unto the allotedness to the truth of be-ing. Allotment is attuning, is the forth-throw that throws man into a grounding-attunement wherein his directive to allotment should be grounded and according to which he is allotted unto the groundership of the truth of be-ing.
The enowning is rare and with en owning, rare is also the possibility that man is thrown into the care for his ownmost and thus wrested from engrossment in himself as extant, that is, as individual and as community. Rare is en-owning and with en-owning, rare is also the history wherein man becomes "familiar" with his ownmost as that which he has to acquire out of the allotment unto be-ing and thus out of be-ing itself and its truth. In order for the human domain to be thrown into that question for which be-ing is the most question-worthy and for which in the hidden history of be-ing a still more inceptual inquiry is the adequate response — an inquiry
* See Überlegungen B, to appear in GA 95.