21. Inception is the Dignity of Beyng | 27
emerge into the open, something that would otherwise remain denied to them. The sending off is what first brings beings (eventally, not as interdependent) into the uncommonness of their own essential simplicity and newness to beyng.
Eventally, the staying away is the appropriative event of the assigning into the arrival of the egress.
The staying away is not a cessation, but neither, equally, is it mere absence. The staying-far-away [Aus-bleiben] brings the egress; it is the advent of the distant in the distance. By contrast, the staying withdraws presence {Anwesenheit} and exhausts itself in this taking away.
Dignity is not appropriated to beyng by virtue of an acknowledgment. Dignity is that which first permits an acknowledging, granting it the play-space of its endeavors, which must, though, always fall short of dignity.
Dignity is the incipience of inception; thus, it is also not a characteristic of beyng but is rather beyng itself, in its receding, essential unfolding.
Dignity is, inceptively, beyng as receding inception.
Holding itself in the intimacy of inception, remaining distant from it, turning back into inception, and turned toward this return, dignity is the pure unconcealment of its thus inceptively protected concealment.
Dignity is the letting-be of the receding into the separation of concealment.
Whether or not the open realm of the unconcealment of concealment ever becomes manifest is not a matter of dignity. Indeed, even announcing the incipience of inception becomes inessential. What is uniquely worthy of dignity is just that the telling happens. Only the thinking of beyng is worthy of dignity; that it eventuates appropriatively and nothing else.
The event suffices, and it is not necessary, of no genuinely inceptive need, that a humanity should ever, historically, get something of this thinking in its ear, even through distorted hearsay.
To be sure, inception eventuates the stillness of being-there and, in it, a nameless steadfastness. Apart from that, it does not need “publicizing.”
Just that it, the appropriative event of inception, might happen; just the inceptuality of beyng’s singular that: this suffices for beyng.
Whether beyng, as inter-vening, comes into the open realm of beings or whether, by hap, beings occur, remains always happen-stance.